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 would advise against Linux for Renee's computer. Not because I dislike Linux - quite the opposite. But a computer is just a tool, and you need to ask yourself what it is for. With Renee, it is for gaming. Renee is not looking to make OS administration into her hobby (forgive me if I am wrong). And all the games are for Windows, so if you want them to run in Linux, you have to take extra steps on the side of Linux system administration, such as installing Wine or another Windows emulator. Plus, Renee likes to make mods for several games, so you are not just looking to support the games but also the Creation Kit, Construction Set and the like.

This is the reason I finally purchased my first Windows PC since Windows 3.11 (1995) - why make things more difficult for yourself than necessary?