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Is this, like, incredibly novel, common, or somewhere in between? I've never heard of this apart from WLS...

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[–] vole@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Ubuntu used to have an option for that and the screen shot from the site looks quite a bit like the old Ubuntu installer.

Oh, right you are. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi

It even has a wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(software)