Whenever a boomer shows me a 15 year old computer, and asks: can you just delete a few programs to make the computer faster:
Yes, I know I could delete the windows, and make let it run on Linux, but that is not something they would accept anyway.
@NEETzsche
I have noticed one thing about my upbringing.
I grew up with win 95.
And that shit was so unstable, I had to reinstall it every two months.
So... From that time, I learned to not attach myself to a current installation or on disk data. If I have to re-install any device today, I know how to reinstall needed programs, and be ready to work in a day.
But even my colleagues seem to be missing this. Even on their company hardware. How??? Why???
I guess some things never change.
@ignika98 @NEETzsche
I don't know anyone who actually uses that shit for anything long term.
I use it only to transfer data, when USB is too inconvenient.
My point is that normies are familiar with this stuff, and I'm surprised they don't use it more often.
Yeah... this was the last straw for online services as far as I am concerned.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked?
A man got banned for sending photos of his son to doctor. This is the most stereotypical case of the nightmare scenario, and Google doesn't care.
@NEETzsche
I just want to understand, why the fuck are all devices using such weird naming convention and how to work with it...
And to have a total control over installation locations.
And to understand the user rights management.
Or... fuck it, learning to use Linux is a vertical line. 
A lot of the time you don’t get those controls unless you really dig in. Installation locations are just all over the place on Loonix
b e a r d
@LukeAlmighty the best method would be to upgrade them to an SSD.
when i got ahold of my grandparents' computer they had like 3 different antiviruses installed (two of which i've never heard of) because they got it from some prebuilt place too so that's a good thing to look for.
@LukeAlmighty if startup is taking a long time it could also just be startup programs. a lot of old people have a shit ton of programs on startup that they installed years ago to complete one task. so you don't have to uninstall it because they'll still click the same icon to bring it up if they ever want to use it, but getting rid of it on startup will help a lot.
@beardalaxy
I know...
But also, do not forget, that she has an up to date legal Windows, and that means also up to date "telemetry" and updates, that need to be extracted on background using new compression algorithms etc.
New win 7 and old win 7 are not the same.
@galena
Yes, I do.
That task is just ridiculous.
@galena
Although, I am considering to just add a bootable linux flash drive to my keychain just to make sure noone will feel dumb enough to ask it twice.
Windows is the correct path you see, and any deviation from that is by definition a flaw. You can replace Windows with whatever normie equivalent we're talking about in computing. A commercial streaming service for music that competes with Spotify we'll need to work exactly like Spotify in order to merit consideration. Even the slightest user experience difference will be considered a faux pas