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

[Renee]

Whoa my gosh Windows 10 will be OBSOLETE so soon??? Decrepit, you mentioned "potential negatives", what is an example (other than loss of support)?

> My auxiliary computer is Windows 10. That's my "everything else" computer, not for gaming. So I am familiar with 10, at least. In case I decide to go that direction.

> Not getting Windows 11, mostly because all the games on that computer are old. And I'm not familiar with 11 at all. ... In the future when ES6 is announced I'll either buy or build a new PC eventually. That computer will probably have 11 on it.

> All this push for AI annoys me too, so I agree with you Lena. If 11 is packed with 'intelligent' features which can't be turned off that would definitely annoy me. I hate (for instance) when I'm typing a sentence on of the computers I use for work, and it tries to finish what I'm typing. At least I can disable all that nonsense for my own rigs.

Yeah I don't even know what Linux is! All I know is it's an alternative to Mac or PC??? Either way, I'd be a duck stranded away from the pond if I went for Linux.

If Win-7 would have been able to use the latest version of DirectX I would not have switched.

Ah, here's something I didn't consider. So which DirectX does 7 support at highest?

Heck, I'll bing that. Okay, it says Windows 7 supports DirectX 11, so I think I'm good.

so why not skip 10 and go for 11.

Nope, not going for 11. 'Tis why 11 is not on the poll, mirocu. I'm only running older games on this computer, and as Lena + the ghast have mentioned, there are things about 11 they don't like.

Thanks all, btw.