I might start a project to teach a couple of non-tech people how to work with computers at some point. I’d love to hook them up with Linux and libre/open office but the pragmatical reality is that they’re gonna need the Windows know-how for employment reasons at least at first.
Problem with that is that Windows is expensive (only in hardware. who buys Microsoft software?). They’re bloated and require progressively more advanced hardware to do the same thing they’ve done in the 90s. I’m trying to come up with ways to reduce costs to work with minimal hardware but my experience on that is only on the Linux front.
Does anybody have any experience with something like that, for example running some cracked Windows 7/XP, that could help?
You can download Windows 10 iso here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
If you want to crack Windows 10 for free and don’t want to see the “activate your windows” watermark, my personal recommendation is using KMS_VL_ALL, available on MDL forum. Note that you need to create an account on the forums to access this script.
To use it, install Windows 10 normally, during the installation process when you are asked for a product key simply skip that step. Turn off Windows security antivirus, then run the script and set it to install.