I know it is possible to install Ubuntu as a Windows application. I'd like to know if it is also possible to do so with Linux Mint, which I would like to try.I already know that this kind of usage will have bad performance, but since I just need the Linux dist to run one single program I still want to do this.Would it be better to install into a VirtualBox?
Using Linux Mint as a Windows application
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First, Wubi (which you probably mean by installing Ubuntu as a Windows application) doesn't actually install Linux as an application; rather, it installs Linux in a disk image that lives within Windows' partition.You could go with a virtual machine with a lightweight distro (like Xubuntu), which should provide good performance in any recent machine. 