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Install Linux next to Windows without a USB stick
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GITHUB · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 724 upvotes (top 1%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial The wizard UI and orchestration are vibe-codeable, but the core job is low-level disk partitioning and boot-manager manipulation (BCD, GRUB), where errors can make machines unbootable.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a Windows installer or utility with a Linux live-image pipeline, using native Windows disk APIs for safe partition shrinking and a bootloader setup. The hard parts are testing across firmware modes (UEFI and Secure Boot), BitLocker and Windows Fast Startup edge cases, and recovery paths. This needs systems and boot expertise plus a broad hardware test matrix.
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Attention rank: #11 of 794 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 358 days after the earliest competitor.
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