The version was called PCLinux OS which I bought from the
linuxshop.co.uk. I didn't name it before because I couldn't find the original discs. I have recent tried to access the Linux shop, but have been warned by my browser that their security certificate isn't valid.
I can say, I installed it. Found it crashed my computer. Removed it and found I couldn't access the CD drive to reinstall Windows. Asking in the forum for this OS, my messages were repeatedly deleted. I eventually bought another computer.
Since then I have spoken to a number of different people and been advised that Linux will need to rewrite the BIOS because it works in a different way. That when it was removed, it failed to return my BIOS to its original state. I ahve also been advised there is a command line code I can enter but sadly I can't remember what it is and lost the paper on which I wrote it down. But no big deal. Down to experience.
I accept that that version of Linux is well known to the entire planet to be buggy, sadly, at the time, it was being widely recommended. (To put it mildly. It was said to be the Linux to finally replace Windows.). I accept that my computer is rather old, but at the time, it wasn't. I accept I could have done this or that, or gone to this or that, or bought this or that, but I didn't.
I installed a version of Linux. It destroyed my machine. The Forums were less helpful that an French waiter in an emergency and I will stick with Uncle Bill for now. (I'm just not ready to worship at the feet of Apple. I have found most Linux users to be rather overly keen and slightly fanatical, (in a Ho Humm, sort of way
).).
In a few years, it might be interesting to look at the sociology of computer OS's. M$ is the standard, of course, but the competitors, Linux and Apple, but seem to have developed their own brands of personal insanity, which is really quite amusing to those of us who just want something to do as it says on the tin, but blissfully unaware to those affected.
Just another reason to love you all.
