My Sims2 world :(

I hear that the sims 4 is coming out. I want a single world so bad. I have been moving my sims2 sims in that direction. I have envied the sims 3 but have yet to budge. I am getting tired of windows xp though and looked into ubuntu and android as full time operating systems. The sims 3 runs in ubuntu seemlessly from what I have seen online but it is still a bunch of different maps seperated. And then after I got all excited I find out that I can only have one active family and it is rocket science to save multiple families I want to play in the same map. What the heck? In the sims 2 I have so many families to play with my eyes feel like they will bleed. But is fun over the course of god know how many years. I have restarted the process of getting those many families down to one. In my mind I jus know it is possible. Lol inbreeding 3rd cousins isn’t as bad in the game. 🙂 so i am trying one last time. A reformat and fresh install of windows XP and nothing else except the game and orgins and of course google chrome because it remembers my passwords lol:-) I was trying to wait but watching youtube videos of the sims 3 made me want to play the sims again. But the other computers aren’t refurished yet right now my laptop is both for internet work and television watching on hulu and netflix. Plus music . It takes twenty years to download and I forgot which usb I save my neighborhood too. I can’t start all the way over again. Just can’t lol but why not I have a new strategy that might work faster. 🙂