Q. I have a Macbook Pro, and I have Empire: Total War for Windows, I switched my Mac to Windows Vista using boot camp but I can't connect to the internet or anything so I can't install steam. How do I install the game on Mac?
A. I know nothing of a mac os, but you will have to find a program that allows you to run windows programs. Back when i was pretty much forced to use
linux, i used a program called wine, which allowed me to run most windows programs, including windows games. There should be something similar for mac, if you google it.
Do you think Linux on the Desktop could replace Windows?
Q. Do you think Linux on the desktop could replace Windows? I think it could Linux as an operating system is very secure, stable, functional and customizable has a powerful command line and nice desktop environments like KDE and Unity (not a big fan of gnome 3.x though...) and not to mention it runs well and never crashes. Not to mention some distributions like Ubuntu can be very easy to use.
A. Not until it's widely available pre-installed on mainstream OEM machines. Every couple years Dell and HP toy with offering a Linux system or two, and like clockwork they abandon the project when sales never materialize. Average users view lack of adoption as a vote of no confidence; it's true that MS pressures these companies whenever they flirt with Linux, but until enough units sell it's a moot point telling MS to shut up.
Remember, most average users never install their OS, they run what it came with until they buy a brand-new PC with the next version; this is especially true for Windows, where upgrading one release to the next is much more difficult than upgrading on a Mac, for example. Regardless of it's merits, Linux won't see mass adoption until anyone can walk into a shop at the mall and try it in person; they have such shops in India, China, Brazil, and other nations and their popularity shows the importance hardware manufacturers and retailers play in granting a product 'legitimacy' in the public mind.
See the success of Google's Chromebooks for another example; it doesn't use GNOME, KDE, or Unity, and yet they're flying off the shelves so fast Amazon can't keep them on stock. (Again, being installed means you have a product on offer; saying "download an ISO, move it a USB, decide on a partitioning scheme, then run the installer, and if you need help there's always the forums" is fine for us enthusiasts who enjoy tinkering but it isn't a plan for major market share.
(By the way, curious how a Chromebook can run Netflix natively while distros like Ubuntu or Fedora have to use a buggy, unsupported WINE + Silverlight combo? Because Acer and Samsung include a chip that handles DRM support, removing Netflix's reason for not supporting the Linux platform. See what hardware partners can do? It took Valve deciding to offer Steam on Ubuntu to get Nvidia, ATI, and Intel to agree on a concerted effort to improve their Linux GPU drivers rather than treating them like an afterthought. "Linux" can't make inroads to desktop success on it's own.)
Would downloading a Torrent for Skyrim damage my computer in any way?
Q. I'm thinking about downloading a Torrent for Skyrim but I'm afraid it'll cause a virus and cause my ps to crash. Please don't tell me all the reasons why torrents are bad, I really don't need to hear it. Thanks for any and all help.
A. Torrents are not bad. People are bad. And torrents serve a valuable service (such as Linux distros).
There is nothing wrong with downloading a torrent to try out a product to see if u will like it. If u do like it, then morally u should buy it.
Also there is nothing wrong with using torrents to remove annoyances from items u have paid for...such as files to bypass using Steam to install your Skyrim game.
But, naturally, torrents can also transmit viruses and other malware. I'm sure that downloaded games can easily have viruses attached to their executables or whatever. U will just have to carefully scan anything u download. Another good practice is to use a virtual operating system. This is like loading an instance of Windows inside the main Windows which, when closed, does not write anything to your main Windows. This way, if a virus does happen to appear, it's wiped out when u close the artificial instance of Windows.
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