new way to install steam on windows 10

[Chris Solomon]

just stumbled across this method to install steam using winge tand windows terminal/powershell

just type the following command from windows terminal or powershell: winget install --id valve.steam --exact

you might need to install winget before the command will work. if the winget command fails, follow the instructions here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/

if you are participating in a windows insider build, then you *should* already have the tool installed. this includes the "release preview channel" version of windows.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I'm talking about recently. Even back in the days of WinXP it was generally un-wise to keep anything deemed important on the OS Drive. I've always used 2 drives minimum since the days of Win95. Once laptops were shipping with 2 sata ports, I did it for those as well, without the need to depend on an external. At least not for things like my games. Loose files like documents, videos, sure.

Even on a Laptop from say 2011 onward it made sense to have at least one ssd in the system with the os installed to ssd.

[Chris Solomon]

well even back in the XP days when you had a pre-built, you typically had a single drive that, but it was put into multiple partitions there would be the OS partition, a DATA partition and then what ever factory recovery partitions were included, I typically just merged the DATA and OS partitions. but only becuase the two partitions existed on the same drive. if the drive went bad, you were going to lose the data on both partitions anyways, so why have to deal with two smaller drives when you could have one bigger one. that was back when you could only have on primary partiton and had to resort to logical partitions fore everything else. whish resulted in wasted, unsuable space on the drive, even if it was only a small amount. these days you can put multiple primary partitions on a single drive I think you can put as many as 4 or 5 these days, before you have to resort to logical partitions and so on. so even on a SSD partition slack is not as much an issue these days because of that. my moms old WinXP Gateway laptop which had one of those first gen x64 AMD processors - before x64 was really a thing, was setup with one primary and the rest were logIcal partitions. I remember how much of a pain in the butt it was
to upgrade the HDD on that thing when it came time... i ended up having to install special software so that the system could both recognize the drive, and access its full size. god that was a pain to do, since she wanted to keep everything that she had on the old drive.

[Chris Solomon]

Bad 💀 Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm talking about recently. Even back in the days of WinXP it was generally un-wise to keep anything deemed important on the OS Drive. I've always used 2 drives minimum since the days of Win95. Once laptops were shipping with 2 sata ports, I did it for those as well, without the need to depend on an external. At least not for things like my games. Loose files like documents, videos, sure.

Even on a Laptop from say 2011 onward it made sense to have at least one ssd in the system with the os installed to ssd.

i think my 12 year old laptop *MAY* have had a SSD option back when i ordered it, not sure though. I chose to get the largest size drive i could get at the time, which was a 500Gb HDD and a second, internal 500Gb HDD. I know the system had a SSD to HDD transfer utility included with the system utilities, so it must have SSD options. I custom ordered that laptop directly from the manufacturer back in early 2010, so it was before SSD's became so widespread. though that system still runs, and has since been upgraded to Win10 and 2 2Tb HDD's (1x 2Tb SSHD and 1x 2Tb Hdd) and it is still usab;e in a pinch. if i could go back in time and choose different laptop, I would. the only reason I chose that one is becuase Toshiba promised to make available a video card upgrade for the laptop. which would have upgraded the laptop's discrete video from a GTX 330M to a GTX 460. but toshiba canceled the upgrade project or whatever you call it. I knew toshiba had a bad habit of doing that type of crap, since my parents got a toshiba infina 200 years ago which others sued toshiba for in a class action lawsuit over the infina line. but i had somehow hoped they would have learned their lesson by 2010. they didn't and i got screwed out of an upgrade.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I never would suggest to buy extra drives with a Laptop order from the laptop maker. Its generally cheaper to just buy the Laptop with whatever they ship it as far as Drive(s); if has options for drives just choose the cheapest one. Once you get the Laptop, buy and install your own SSD and just clone the OS Drive to it. Better yet, clean install your OS of choice so you don't have any extra partitions or bloat-ware from the Laptop maker pre-installed.

[Chris Solomon]

if i had not ordered it with the laptop, from my research, they would have used a MB that had the second SATA porrt, but did not include the port attachment point that gets soldered on at time of manufacter. so there is no way to use the port, even though hardare wise, it is there. It is just another stupid toshiba stunt.

[Chris Solomon]

also as for doing a clean install, was not really an option for me. I chose to get Win7 Untimate as my OS, and during purchase of the laptop, they wanted full retail price for win7 ULT disc. Just so i could do a clean install. the laptop cost me around $4500 and I was had already gone overbudget on the system. I was notwilling to pay for a second license for software I already had a license for. Well.... the Joke ended up being on me. Toshiba later refused to sell me the disc wheni could afford it and needed it. they would only sell me the factory restore discs, which i didn't need. and of course by that point, microsoft had just stopped selling copies of Windows 7 Ultimate.