From another comment I made
A linux installer for windows that works just like a normal installer on windows. You download the
.exe, double click it, it opens a wizard you can walk though, and by the end of the process, after it reboots, you’re in a linux distro.
How could something like this be implemented?
My idea:
Best case scenario where multiple data partitions exist and can accommodate the user data stored on C:/ + there’s a swap partition -->
- download a linux iso
- deactivate swap
- replace swap partition with ISO contents
- modify contents to auto install linux with settings from wizard
- add boot entry to boot from old swap / modified ISO
- reboot
- install linux with a nice progress animation
- move user data from C:/ to other partition
- replace C:/ with linux
- install alternatives to programs found on windows (firefox for edge, gimp for paint, inkscape for …, libreoffice for MS office, etc.)
- move user data to
/home/$username - configure DE with theme (gnome for macos look, kde with theme for windows look)
- other customisations
- reboot into linux
Dunno if this is feasible in the best case scenario.
It would be better for your nerves to just do a normal GNU/Linux installation. There are too many ways the installation can go wrong:
For example, Ubuntu ISO has a size of 5.7G. But my swap, which you previously deactivated, was 4G. Either 2G, or it didn’t exist at all.
The other partition may not exist or may have capacity smaller than C:/.
The installed Linux must also be stored somewhere. And there is also a copy partition for C. The same problem of lack of space.
From %APPDATA%? You would have to be a know-it-all to resolve the location paths and configuration names of literally every existing program.
And it is at this moment that Windows will completely randomly decide to update and rewrite the bootloader :)