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I thought the OP was done a while ago. The Linux folks crawled into the thread and it became one of those again. On a computer that can directly support Win11, the notification is pretty tame, it pops up in Windows Update, maybe a notification? It's not particularly persistent, and I thought...

https://www.aarp.org/research/topics/technology/info-2019/2020-technology-trends-older-americans.html "In 2014, when 8 in 10 younger Americans owned a smartphone, only half of adults over 50 owned one. Today, smartphone adoption is 86 percent among Americans age 50 to 59 and 81 percent for...

I know plenty of old people, and they all have smartphones. Every single one of them. Even the most physically encumbered. They have phones and they are capable of making calls and sending texts and emails. Not all of them have computers, and they are fine with that.

Then should this person be using a computer? Does a keyboard and a mouse help?

The modern smartphone has existed for 15 years, they've sold about infinity-1 of them, and thanks to programs like "Obama Phone" they can be had cheap or free. If someone would be totally brand new to a smartphone in December 2021, one really needs to evaluate what this person actually needs.

OK, so why would he be using one now? The point of the posts is that "old person, able to use a computer, but I don't trust them." If they are past the mental faculties to use this stuff, they ain't using this stuff.

Why? Any smartphone or tablet can do this, and likely better. What Linux video chat comes anywhere close to FaceTime, and has a protocol likely both parties have? Even Google Duo (if they still use that) is probably tiers above anything Linux offers to both ends of a call. Again, if you...

Sure it does. Unless you think when *you* are 80 someone's gonna just say "oh, Shoganai is old, they don't know computers" and you're just gonna mumble and get back to your prune juice. We didn't jump from the 1950s to the 2020s suddenly. Grandma has less and less reasons to be so far out of...

You're not grandma. When the grandkids come over to visit and they want to play Roblox, uh.. what are you gonna do, set up WINE for grandma? Actually we can go the other way with this.. I brought it up before, why does grandma even have a computer? What is grandma going to do that needs a...

I'd comment on this but the only accounting package I know is Quickbooks, and well wouldn't ya know... "There is no need to download QuickBooks Online because it is connected to the cloud, which means you can access online accounting from any device with an internet connection. You can download...

Maybe. Then again, you are forcing an OS on grandma that may limit what she can do, so, maybe she won't have much to steal anyway cuz she doesn't use that PC much. I do not quite know where you see this. I am on Ubuntu 21.10, and like every Ubuntu before it, when I want Chrome, or in this...

A scammer could just totally take a shot in the dark and say "click the first one" (Debian / Ubuntu / Mint (64 Bit)) and it would probably work. It's just a .deb. You then proceeded to overlay your personal preference on grandma. "It's not like Grandma installs software anyway" -> If you...

As I said, I've never seen those Indian Call Center scam things come in an application. It has always been a web page with a malignant ad. It's not even necessarily a bad page, just one where the ads aren't critiqued. For grandma who is just checking email and doing.. prescriptions?.. it...

"you are am go to https://anydesk.com/en/downloads/ and download" (it will automatically select your OS, which the scammer can casually gleam from the user). As for the distro, unless one is a sadist, you're not going to give grandma a complicated distro. It's going to be Ubuntu (it may even...

That's awful, but that doesn't say anything about the security of Windows. If a scammer is randomly calling phones and gets someone who cooperates with them, the OS they have is irrelevant. As well, AnyDesk is multiplatform, and any Indian Call Center scammer worth their salt has a...

I'm curious about how these scams worked. The only time I've seen those rogue "call this Indian call center to fix your Windows" popups is via web browsers. They aren't standalone apps. Web sites with malignant ads in them that throw up a warning. Now, being browser-based, what browsers...

I'm happy to take M76's statements to the extreme, and assume in his worldview, old people are SO technically inept, SO dysfunctional with ANYTHING involving, say, anything a degree beyond a simple machine (ie. a lever or a pulley) that these people have not *ever* driven a car made after the...

If they are "completely technically illiterate" and concepts like web browsers elude them, why do they have a computer?

... and some old people still adjust totally fine to evolving technologies. What's your point?

If your 90yr old pop has a newer PC that can be upgraded to Win11.. let him upgrade? Oh noes, they moved the Start button over a little.

The only issue I am seeing currently is if I start up a VR game where the UI starts in non-VR and I need to interact with that for some reason (ie. an update), I can't get win-Y to get me back to controlling the desktop. It sees the command but I don't get a pointer.

Five or so years ago (not 20), I took a community college class. As part of it, our teacher gave us .doc files (not .docx, .doc) and we had to fill them out and submit them. I was cheap, so I went with LibreOffice. I was getting points off for missing info, which confused me, as I found...

That message indicates the device you're on has fallen out of your list of devices on your Microsoft account. If you haven't turned a PC on in a while they are automatically removed from your account, for instance.

There's an option in the preferences to move the Start button and all the stuff to the left side. I find it looks weird tho so I don't use it.

Looks like a monitor primarily sold in EMEA. In Lenovo model-ology the L stuff tends to be more small business or "business on a budget" stuff. Not necessarily bad, but lacking some bells and whistles of say the T series stuff. Looks like it doesn't have a height-adjustable stand?

This exists. In the US Apple apparently no longer sells them but it's this: https://www.apple.com/sg_smb_5200/shop/product/ML8H2AM/A/iphone-lightning-dock-space-grey I briefly had one for my first Lightning port iPhone. It was kinda lame since it tended to slide around on the desk and needed...

I fail to see why anyone would care. The differences between an online and offline account are minimal. Win10 at least synced the background and theme, Win11 doesn't even do that anymore. Aside from what, OneDrive.. uh.. syncing Edge stuff across devices.. uh.. folder backups.. uh.. ...?

Check if Compatibility mode is on in the BIOS, might be called CSM. I had someone recently that Windows 11 didn't want to upgrade because that was enabled, and I think also their disk setup was MBR mode which the installer also took issue with.

If you use a Home edition of Windows 11, and frequently on Windows 10, the initial setup will only give the option for a Microsoft Account to sign in. As an online account, it requires security. If you do not understand which edition of Windows you have, you may need to refer to your PC...

You seem really mad. Let's calm down and look this through. On a fresh install of Windows 10, on Pro at least, if you don't want your account to have a password, create a local account, and for the password, put.. no password. Just hit Next. If you have a PIN, it's very possible you set up a...

The Intel Macs have always supported it, and MacOS Monterey, which launched last week, still comes with the Boot Camp Assistant. I'm actually surprised it was so difficult to get Win11 installed since Win11 even internally reports itself as Windows 10, so MacOS shouldn't care.

I was thinking about trading in my old 15" and getting one. I might go with the 14" tho.. I need to see them.

Your Start Menu replacement is probably adding it. It's the old Win10 Action Center icon which isn't in Win11. If you were about to worry about *anything* being to the right of the clock, in Win11 it shows a number when there's notifications but otherwise doesn't show. It's mildly weird since...

Internally Win11 still reports itself as Windows 10 anyway. Only the visible name is Windows 11. While the UI is radially different, the underlying code is still just an iteration of Win10.

The closer it is to MS's requirements, the better I'd think. Like they threw out that seemingly arbitrary "8th gen Intel or newer" but I have a 1st gen Surface Book, i5-6xxx, TPM 2.0 and Secureboot, and Win11 clean installed fine and updates fine, and is absolutely 100% functional. I can't...

Xbox is way down in the X's. I don't know how often you scroll that far. What other apps are bothering you?

The Xbox app neither takes much disk space nor impacts performance. If you don't want to see it when you click Start, unpin the tile. Done.

Yeah it was weird, the Windows 11 download site went live during the day, while Facebook was down lol. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 I have it installed on a recently resuscitated newer Dell laptop and it's.. a little slow, but it may be this laptop as it's on one...

For Windows 10, Microsoft has an approved way to modify the stock Start tiles on the installation USB, that doesn't involve Powershell scripts. Like if someone doesn't want Spotify and Roblox and TikTok to install, there's a way to do that. Look up LayoutModification.xml. It's a beautiful...

Quick note, modern macOS can read and write to exFAT partitions, so you could do that.