I have been struggling to decide what to do with my old rendering machines… But they are getting less useful for rendering by the day.

I encountered some Ukrainian refugees in my language class, and some of them don’t have PCs.

It must be hard for them to look up information etc.

I want to clean up my old machines and donate them… But won’t have a Windows licence. I’m also not sure the best way to install Windows if they will be using Russian or Ukrainian language.

Is there a cheap Windows licence or free for Windows this situation?

In the old days I would have pirated it but I don’t want to put them in that situation.

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      1 year ago

      You might want to ask them if they can use a *nix, if not, you’re giving them the gift of headaches and annoyance.

      (I say this as a lifelong Linux user)

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        1 year ago

        As a windows smoothbrain bot I can confirm pop os is straightforward to operate and plain easy if someone helps the person with basic problems (how to find things, how to install things etc).

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        1 year ago

        I’ll throw my hat in the ring for Zorin OS. It’s similarity to Windows is a lot greater than most distros, so switching will be easy. It’s also based on Ubuntu, like Pop :)

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      I did think about this, but I know sweet FA about Linux; they know sweet FA about Linux; and should any problems come up in future, using Linux severely limits the chances of a casual acquaintance being able to help out.

      But you’re right, it would be a decent solution… If the situation was a bit different I might go with that.

      If it was someone I was likely to pop in on to fix things for example.