Once upon a time I had an outdated computer running Windows, and got good at fixing it. So I started fixing my grandparents and cousins computers, and they started calling me when they had an issue. 9 years ago I switched to Linux (which fixed every issue I had), and now when they ask me to fix their Windows 11 I just sit in front of the thing with a blank stare.
yeah, when I had a Win2k or XP machine to play video games, I would run into issues all the time. Fix Windows on my machine helped me fix other people machines. After a more than a decade of not fixing a Windows machine, best I can do is google around. Same thing they can do.
I don’t even know where to google around. 90% of the sites I find are “download and run our proprietary not-a-virus” and I have no way of knowing which ones are legit
Once upon a time I had an outdated computer running Windows, and got good at fixing it. So I started fixing my grandparents and cousins computers, and they started calling me when they had an issue. 9 years ago I switched to Linux (which fixed every issue I had), and now when they ask me to fix their Windows 11 I just sit in front of the thing with a blank stare.
edit: 9 years, not 7
yeah, when I had a Win2k or XP machine to play video games, I would run into issues all the time. Fix Windows on my machine helped me fix other people machines. After a more than a decade of not fixing a Windows machine, best I can do is google around. Same thing they can do.
I don’t even know where to google around. 90% of the sites I find are “download and run our proprietary not-a-virus” and I have no way of knowing which ones are legit
haha, I’ve told people to just google around for over a decade now. Sounds like that’s bad advice now. Is Geek Squad still a thing?