I’ve got everything reinstalled now and aside from virtual Windows being slower, everything is better or the same as how I had it before.<\/p>\n
My grammar sucks but that is because I’m tired.\u00a0 So sue me.\u00a0 I actually spent a bit more time setting up Windows than I would have liked.\u00a0 Reason?\u00a0 Apparently Windows XP SP3 doesn’t like the Civilization II installer.\u00a0 And you all know I HAVE to be able to play CivII.\u00a0 The installer doesn’t start right away when clicked, and if it shows up on the screen at all, it progresses very slowly.\u00a0 And usually it crashes and dies before it hits 100%.<\/p>\n
I tried many times, because one time I did see it reach 100%.\u00a0 It crashed hard anyway.<\/p>\n
So that made me sad.\u00a0 But not for long.\u00a0 I have more computers around me, so a solution wasn’t far away.\u00a0 I first installed it on my new old Windows 98 laptop.\u00a0 That went by really fast, and I now have the game installed on there just fine.\u00a0 But I was used to having the nice big screen to look at, so I gave it a try on my music computer.<\/p>\n
That computer can boot into either an Ubuntu or Windows XP partition, but I chose to install it in the virtual Windows XP that I use for editing music in Ubuntu.\u00a0 It’s the same setup there…. Windows XP SP3, so I didn’t expect the installer to work.\u00a0 I was gladly mistaken.<\/p>\n
It installed just fine there.\u00a0 Slow too, but it got all the way through on one try and I now have CivII back on a virtual machine on the big screen.<\/p>\n
Back to Xubuntu 10.04 now.\u00a0 Of course, I still prefer LXDE, so I’m using that.\u00a0 The LXDE file manager (PCManFM) still has that crippling bug in 10.04 that makes it useless, so I’ve gone ahead and installed Nautilus.\u00a0 I had remembered Nautilus from before as running slower than dried-out molasses on a cold January day outside.\u00a0 But the developers must have tweaked the fuck out of the code, because now it’s only slightly slower than Thunar on this machine.\u00a0 And with all the added features it has over Thunar, I’ll be using it as the main file manager on this computer.<\/p>\n
Everything else, except Virtual Windows, seems to be faster and snappier on this computer now.\u00a0 So I’m glad I replaced my old video card.\u00a0 It was probably the source of the not infrequent “freezes” I’d experience, and I think it will be recycled rather than simply thrown out.\u00a0 But I never got much vegetation time, so I’m glad I have tomorrow off.\u00a0 It’s a “Civic Holiday” and I get to have the day off even though I don’t own a Honda Civic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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