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I wish we could get back the nifty install into a folder on an NFS drive which Lubuntu used the last time I tried it out.
WUBI was the method but it seems that’s still possible today or so said google AI when I asked:
could ubuntu be installed into a directory on an NTFS drive and dual booted with windows
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Yeah, but I’m not aware of a distro which does this — I’d be glad to know of one.
hmm, it had looked like Grub2Win could do it back on 22.04. But maybe that’s AI feeding incorrect info. I don’t mess with Windows much at all so if anything Windows would run inside a container on Linux.
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Found a site discussing it:
https://fixmyos.hashnode.dev/dual-boot-linux-with-windows-11-without-usb-drive-or-creating-partition
and this text is a bit off-putting:
While Grub2Win supports UEFI, disabling Secure Boot in your BIOS/UEFI settings is highly recommended to prevent conflicts when booting custom GRUB configurations.
I don’t get why it would be “off-putting” and especially when it says “recommended” instead of required. I did a quick search on using Grub2Win without disabling Secure Boot and not only are there many discussions on this there are people doing it by dealing with the key/signing crap Microsoft implemented. So ya, if you do anything but Windows and Microsoft validated software it’ll take more than clicking a setup.exe file. Luckily there are ways to deal with that company claiming ownership to customer hardware.
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Mostly because it was so easy before — lubuntu did install on my ThinkPad w/ just double-clicking on a setup.exe file — ah well, this is why I’ve got a pair of Raspberry Pi 5s which I bought back before the price jump and which I’m going to be setting up.
yup, people went out of there way to try and make it easier because Microsoft makes it hard when what you’re doing isn’t something they want done. They have a certified and approved way to run some Linux distros on their OS. It’s a captive VM with some hooks into their NT kernel IIRC, Linux Sub-system for Windows or something like that. Probably doesn’t allow a full desktop experience but with Windows you get less than what you pay for. 
I used OS/2 for about 10 years and the crap MS would pull disabling booting of OS/2 in the Windows boot loader. And that’s mild compared to the game they played of moving a small portion of the application resources into the upper 2GB address space just so OS/2 users couldn’t run Windows apps in OS/2 even though they had a Windows license.
As you can tell, the bad smell of Microsoft lingers and they continue to do things which makes them stink.
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I actually considered buying an OS/2 license and paying someone to code support for the new Wacom EMR styluses, but too impatient w/ my discretionary funds and unwilling to redirect funds on Patreon which are supporting an opensource project I’m hopeful of.
The last time I tried it, a Wacom tablet display worked perfectly w/ an rPi, so that’s probably the best option for me going forward.
Well if you want to know more then Lewis Rosenthal is the guy to ask and you might be able to ask him here since he’s the one running ArcaOS more or less.
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