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

[Lena Wolf]

I voted Windows 10. This is what I have on both of my Windows PCs, while we have Windows 11 on our work machines. I don't like 11, it has too many "intelligent" features that we cannot disable. And I think Win7 is just too old. I've had no issues running Oblivion or other old games on Win10, I think all those scary stories about Win10 ruining your game are just scaremongering. Or people not knowing what they are doing.

The one thing I'd do straight away though is install Winearo and disable Windows updates.

This post has been edited by Lena Wolf: Jul 22 2024, 12:02 PM