LINUX and XP Help! :)

[Gurf]

ok, so i have been pulling at threads as to why my warcraft allways needs to be manually patched,
it can never connect to the servers for the patch - upon pressing 'download patch' it automaticaly logs me off and tells me its unable to patch.

so digging into the problem, i tried a simple task of trying to run the program as the administrator.
Problem being somehow im not, im the only 'user' yet not the admin :S

I cannot seem to get the admin account to even appear on the log in screen (Win XP)
and i do not know the password,

So, i downloaded and burnt onto a CD ophcrackLive CD, which runs a mini operating system on boot up, its a Linux as far as i know, and i gotta say, its pretty dam cool!

Turns out there is 5 accounts,

My user
Admin
Guest
Support
Help Assistant


Is this normal? and if so, how the devil do i access admin?
I tried in cmd runnig it via netuser administrator active/:yes, even when it says sucsessful
there is still no trace!

So im looking at the possibility of wiping the whole dam thing and running either a version of XP that i can lay my hands on, or a linux, but i am a complete nub and only know of linux as an open source operating system!
but from what ive seen, im very impressed

any thoughts?

[Gianna]

Yes, that is normal. And yes, Linux is cool (and Ophcrack is too good and easy to use for being freely available).

-G

[Gurf]

is linus safe to use with wow?

the version that comes with the crack is one made to run via a removable source like a use etc, therefore im none too confident

i was thinknig maybe the more commercially used one (unbutu i think it is?)

[Gianna]

Since I don't play anymore I am not following developments in the WoW region But I read that people got it to run in Linux.
I would not recommend doing that if you are not tech-savvy though.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft is a starting point.

Cheers,
G

[Gurf]

im kinda tech savy, just not to the point of scripting/coding

XP is just full of so much junk, and so open for errors. thats why i like the appeal of an OS thats been made by users for users.

all in good time, i need to store the 21 gig of musin somehow :S

[Dust]

WoW can run on Linux with . So it should run on any linux.

I like Slax, it's a special purpose portable linux distribution. Backtrack is a great CD linux distro designed for Security Testing (... hacking :). Ubuntu is a debian based distro that's very newbie friendly and apparently easy to install. It seemed rather extensive to my taste. Debian is a very established distro with a long support history, but I think it's more for servers than personal users. More info: [url]http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Oh... stay away from Gentoo or Slackware unless you REALLY REALLY like compiling your stuff exactly as you want :)

[Gurf]

Well i managed to access and admin account,
Howevever i had to get there via adding it via regedit, and there the patcher works fine (PTR)

The most notable difference is on Linux - the web browser has zero 'hiccups' whereas normally i need to leave it a good 20 secs as it freezes..

If i do go ahead, it will be the more commonly used ones as i do not want to get in completely over my head

[Noshow]

You really don't want to play games on Linux, too much of a hassle and it doesn't get the performance Windows (or Mac) does. Besides that, Linux wins.