Computer Help and Support

The laptops at my wife's work are all Windows 10 machines but most of the older and expensive Windows software opens in virtual machines.

Windows Pro includes Hyper-V, which is Microsoft's virtual machine, but there are other alternatives such a VirtualBox and VMWare.

There are plenty of helpful tutorials on the internet explaining step-by-step how to set up a virtual machine.

I'm a Linux and Chromebook evangelist. I quit Windows for Linux at Windows 98SE because I was tired of "upgrades" that broke all my stuff.

Most of the computers I've ever used, going back to the 'seventies, are recreated as virtual machines on my Linux desktop.

Modern Linux desktops can be very similar to Windows.

It's not terribly expensive to learn Linux without risking your primary computer.

A complete Raspberry Pi setup costs less than $100, or you can install something like Linux Mint on nearly any older machine. I've never had any trouble setting up a Raspberry Pi but wifi is sometimes difficult on random old computers because many manufacturers seemed to do wifi their own proprietary way.