Thanks, but this seems to be rather an unofficial hack, no? If Microsoft decides to block this approach, the setup may cause trouble out of a sudden which I’d like to avoid as my relatives live quite far away.

what kind of state of mind you have to be in for that

Probably crazy enough to demand that the PC repair shop has to bear all the costs he caused by his genius idea.

That sounds like an interesting fallback and better than Windows 11. Do you need a new licence for that or can you just change from Windows 10 Pro to IOT LTSC?

give them a fair and informed choice.

I think to make an informed choice you need a certain understanding of what an operating system is at all and what might be differences etc. I’m talking about people who are afraid that their emails disappear from the webmailer if they buy a new laptop.

From my experience it’s important that, after booting the PC, they immediately find the 1-x icons on the desktop to open the browser etc. Within the browser they need bookmarks to find webmail, banking etc.

They won’t try to install new software, enter commands in the terminal or tweak around with the settings.

But to calm you down a bit: if they really don’t like it, they can stick with Windows. ;)

Thanks for your post.

IMHO Windows is getting harder to use with every update. Context and start menus are changing, you get annoyed by One Drive, asked to use a Microsoft account for everything, suddenly stuff like Notepad has Copilot integration, suddenly links open in Edge instead of your default browser and you’re confused that your bookmarks are gone etc. Apart from that, hacks to install Windows 11 on non-supported hardware might work fine today, but may break with every next update.

I moved my mum to Linux Mint one year ago and so far didn’t have issues or complaints. In fact she’s super happy with the Solitaire game as it does have way more play modes while not having any annoying advertisements. She’s using Firefox and LibreOffice which she already had on Windows before. It was less of a deal for her than a new Android major release on her phone.

But my mom is living much closer to me. In worst case I can fix any issue in person. Unlike these other relatives. There I need some kind of support access for troubleshooting.

Thank you very much, that GUI looks very similar to Teamviewer which they already know.

if you don’t want to use their servers, you can even host your own

I didn’t download and try it yet. Do you know if you can indeed use their servers as well without self-hosting? I went to their website and scrolled through the GitHub FAQ and at first sight I can only see the self-hosted option. They even advertise it as ‘non SaaS’.

That’s not how you create swimlane diagrams.

Just a regular German word. Please keep walking, nothing to see here.

You should add the local weather forecast, a random fun fact and the canteen menu of the day to the key to make it more interesting to read.

To reduce the chance of errors, you can multiply all numbers by a factor of 10, 100, 1000, 10000, … for the timeout. The higher the factor, the lower the chances of an incorrect result. And as no one asked about performance…

Sure, ‘features’… And then everyone clapped…

‘Bugs.’

For those who want a more convincing but still low-effort variant of this, use… https://hackertyper.net/

Press F11 in your browser to run it in fullscreen.

A platform that is doing a great job so far but which (unfortunately) isn’t as relevant yet to call it a pillar of modern infrastructure. ;)

Kyll is a beautiful little stream in Germany.

they speak in this code language, evolving all the time so they can talk about normal stuff young people talk about and stay ahead of the big censor machine. And often it’s censored so poorly, everyone can still read it, like what was the point then?

If everyone can still read it, but it wasn’t detected by the big censor machine that sounds like a win to me?

Can’t you just create a folder with links / shortcuts to all the applications and games and just open said folder with a click (or some kind of shortcut)?

I completely support that. Bash porn can get pretty interactive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_(command)

Okay, that’s strange. When you say workstations, I assume that you had pretty decent hardware and probably more powerful than my consumer notebook. I usually don’t notice lags or load times > 1 second. If I do a complex operation like mass-cloning an object via a polar pattern, I have to wait for 2 or 3 seconds but really nothing that bothered me in the workflow. Definitely never anything close to a minute as you described.

If you want to give FreeCAD another chance one day and still experience the same issues, maybe bring it up in the official forums. The experts there might have an idea what could be wrong.

I never had these kind of performance issues at all. I use it on three different ThinkPads, all not too bad but also no crazy hardware. The cheapest should be an E14 with a AMD 5500U and 16 GB of RAM that was around 500€ 4 years ago.

Isn’t Fusion360 cloud-based? If so, it doesn’t make too much sense to compare the performance on a certain hardware.