Comment 433 for bug 1

I think that Microsoft and Linux Ubuntu aren't on the same egal ground to this point.

Microsoft Windows will NEVER give the choice to a user to dual boot with another system but Ubuntu will.. but we shouldn't expect Ubuntu to be completely flawless when working with closed technologies that they didn't invented ( like FAT32 or NTFS ), it's already a miracle that Linux can work with NTFS partitions, I think that this should be always improved but we can't expect it to work without risks, even in Microsoft installer anyway. And the RAID drivers you got for Windows, does the producer of your RAID makes drivers for Linux?? I have doubts.

I agree with you to say that Linux Ubuntu should be more "all working in few easy automatics steps" and I think that it already beat Microsoft on some point with installation because Linux detect everything and make all works when drivers exists. The bitter point is that Ubuntu have access to a restricted driver list, this would be a very important point to be improved! I don't personnaly know about RAID 0 so maybe that Ubuntu have to make some works on this. And I TOTALLY agree that there should be a REALLY more easy way to manage dual boot in Linux, editing /boot/grub/menu.lst isn't pretty user friendly.

But I don't think that you can install Microsoft Windows without loosing all your data, except with another partition which will not be erased, but that's all the same for Windows or Linux.