Windows 7 versus Windows 10 Options

[Renee]

Title & poll, post your thoughts, please?

Guess I should explain a bit. My hard drive died this morning. Unlike with the graphics, which began acting up 3 weeks ago, there was absolutely no warning with the hard drive. I read somewhere that bumping the computer case around can cause the "needle" (the head?) of the hard drive to scratch up the disc inside. But all the while last week when I installed the graphics card it wasn't getting bonked around.

Only thing I can think of is yesterday I was moving a lot of files around> I had to rebuild Fallout 3, and lots of info was getting downloaded. And I also 'deleted' a lot of files from my old install of FO3. (And I know info doesn't actually get erased when we delete it.)

Another thing is the old drive was 1 tb, most of which was full. Maybe up to 890-ish GB.

Anyway, getting a new drive, which OS would you get?



This post has been edited by Renee: Jul 22 2024, 01:23 AM

[SubRosa]

I would go Windows 10, just because it is more recent and so is more current when it comes to security patches. That is why I updated my gaming PC to Windows 10. But even 10 is going to be at end of life next year. Honestly, if you are thinking of the future Windows 11 is the way to go. I have not really had much experience with it however, so I cannot really say much about it one way or another.

When it comes to Windows 10 at least, with Open Shell Menu and OldNewExplorer it looks and acts just like Windows 7 did. For that that makes it easy to go with 10.