My elderly mom recently got scammed out of $17,500 by a close friend & had to get all new bank accounts. I'm currently visiting her & setting up all of her automatic bill payments. While using her desktop computer, I realized that it doesn't qualify for Windows 11 so I'm looking at new PCs, comparing them to her old one... It seems like all of the affordable options would be a downgrade in RAM. Lol, her current computer is from 2017 & she still has the original box it came in.
@CosmicTraveler woo cool pc. Is it viable to keep windows 10 or install Linux mint?
@d_prieto it currently has windows 10 and I got an extension until October of 2026. I was considering trying Linux but I don't think I visit often enough to keep it updated.
@CosmicTraveler @d_prieto With very little work Mint can be set to update itself automatically or be triggered to update by you remotely (SSH). Windows started as a standalone product. Linux was built to be networked and remotely administered from the earliest days. If you can manage an install of Linux you have enough savvy to set up a remote admin. There are great tutorials on the 'tubes...
BTW, I'm responding to you on my main system, a PC from 2007 running Mint.