Sims2789
Fool me once...
I'd anticipated the arrival of my favorite game of all time, Black & White, for a few days. I ordered it online to replace the version lost by a friend's brother a few years ago. It came, I pop it in, ready to play. It runs fine for a while. This time, I got an ape so that I can teach it the meteor miracle. When my clock stirkes eight, the game crashes, as Norton Antivirus has to put itself in front of all other programs to do its auto-scan. Fine. My mom's a Luddite and won't get AVG Free (not Adaware, thinking it's "adware"), so there's no need to get mad about it. I close Norton, restart my computer, and expect to play Black & White. While loading, it crashes. The error notification box blames not the game but Windows Explorer. Why? How would Norton crashing cause this? I restart my computer, turn off Norton, and it happens again. I do the same process again except this time I don't connect to the Internet (I would later realize the difference between Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, but both prior to IE 7 beta use the same files), and the same error box appears. I uninstall the game, reinstall it (and the patch) and it still crashes. When I uninstall the patch, then reinstall it, the game works fine. The game crashes naturally a few hours later (Black & White crashes on autosave a lot; I forgot to turn it off) but when I try to reload it, I get the same error message. I eventually fix it again but then it autosaves again and crashes (there's a few points where it autosaves even if you tell it not to). Of course, the error message blames not Black & White, but Windows. To add insult to injury, I read the error report
and it I was running Windows NT, despite me running XP! That's it. I've had it. When an operating system can't even identify itself correctly in its error reports, it is not worthy of being used by me. As I don't want to pay for a new Mac, I've decided to get Linux. Of course, I'm still gonna have Windows on here so I don't have to replace all my software. I'll download the Linux version of OpenOffice.org and Mozilla to spend as little time as possible on Windows.
There's one problem, though: I know nothing about Linux! Which OS should I use? Which ones are stable? Can any run Windows programs?
Here's a list of what I want from Linux, in order:
*Ability to run games (Red Hat makes a lot of Linux games, so Windows compatibiliy isn't an issue).
*Stability.
*Speed.
*Compatibility with Windows.
Basically, tell me what the best Linux OS is.
And of course, it has to be free, which I assume all Linux OSes are.
and it I was running Windows NT, despite me running XP! That's it. I've had it. When an operating system can't even identify itself correctly in its error reports, it is not worthy of being used by me. As I don't want to pay for a new Mac, I've decided to get Linux. Of course, I'm still gonna have Windows on here so I don't have to replace all my software. I'll download the Linux version of OpenOffice.org and Mozilla to spend as little time as possible on Windows.
There's one problem, though: I know nothing about Linux! Which OS should I use? Which ones are stable? Can any run Windows programs?
Here's a list of what I want from Linux, in order:
*Ability to run games (Red Hat makes a lot of Linux games, so Windows compatibiliy isn't an issue).
*Stability.
*Speed.
*Compatibility with Windows.
Basically, tell me what the best Linux OS is.
And of course, it has to be free, which I assume all Linux OSes are.