I might start a project to teach a couple of non-tech people how to work with computers at some point. I’d love to hook them up with Linux and libre/open office but the pragmatical reality is that they’re gonna need the Windows know-how for employment reasons at least at first.
Problem with that is that Windows is expensive (only in hardware. who buys Microsoft software?). They’re bloated and require progressively more advanced hardware to do the same thing they’ve done in the 90s. I’m trying to come up with ways to reduce costs to work with minimal hardware but my experience on that is only on the Linux front.
Does anybody have any experience with something like that, for example running some cracked Windows 7/XP, that could help?
I’m vaguely aware of stripped down versions of Windows made by fans over the years. I think the most recent being Windows 10 Lite. Maybe do some research into one of those?
That looks pretty cool, I will definitely check it out. Don’t think I’ll be running into any surviving 32bit hardware so it might be just what I need.