alvgom's questions

I understand that it is currently possible to run Ubuntu on Windows 10 in two different ways:

1. Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
2. Installing docker for Windows 10, and use a container with Ubuntu.

However, I could not find an easy to understand explanation of what are the differences between them (talking about applications), as well as advantages and disadvantages.

I found a post talking about using docker on WSL: Ubuntu via (Windows Linux Subsystem) and Docker. But I'm talking about using it directly on Windows 10. So I will appreciate any information about these two.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I'm trying to run a program in remote login, and then disconnect whereas the program is running. More specifically:

I have a Matlab program which ends with the command save, so that I save some images a .mat files. For that I use the following commands:

rlogin (name)
matlab -nodesktop -nosplash -nodisplay <file.m

And when file.m finishes, the last command is a save, so that a keep the required data in the computer where I'm logged. However, the program takes around two hours, and it is very common that I lose the connection before it finishes. So I wanted to find the way to send the command, and keep it running even if I lose the connection, so that the data are automatically saved when it finishes, and I can recover it when I use remote login again.

Thanks!

I am trying to install Ubuntu in a laptop with Windows 8.1, but after launching from a USB, I obtain the message “This computer currently has no detected operating systems”. I’ve seen a lot of similar problems in this forum, but all of them are solved in a similar way, as they are related with the UEFI or Legacy mode. However, my laptop had Windows 7 preinstalled, and I installed Windows 8 later, and when I try to modify these options in BIOS I don’t find anything related with UEFI or secure boot (I’ve already checked a lot of forums but I realized this option doesn’t exist on my BIOS). However I found strange that the USB is detected in BIOS as “UEFI: USB Flash Disk 1100”. Windows 8.1 is installed in Legacy mode, and the partition is MBR.

After a lot of time trying in this way, I created a partition (shrink space in Windows, there are also a lot of tutorials on how to do it in this forum) in order to install linux in that partition. However, when I click “Something else”, all the space is detected as free space. It is, there are no partitions. The only idea I have is to create the partition by using this assistant, but as everything is detected as free space, I will indeed lose everything I have in Windows.

Any idea? Thanks for the help!