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.
Install non legit 7 or 8.1 then upgrade to 10 (this still works) after that is has a legit win10 that can even be clean reinstalled. Amd upgraded to 11 if hardware supported (or bypassed).
AFAIK you can use Windows 10 for free indefinitely; you just can’t change the theme, and have to live with the “Activate Windows” overlay on the desktop. There used to be a 90 day limit on use but I don’t think that exists anymore.
Apparently you can activate Windows using this: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
(Stolen from elsewhere, have not tried myself, might be legally dubious)
Introduce then to Linux is the best gift you can do to them. I regret a lot to not having the same and be raised with windows, its make me lazy and stupid but most important have make me ignoring how much a Machine mean and how we all should approach them.
Damn, I gave my Windows 10 Pro key last week to my brother since it has been 4 years since Ilasr used Windows. I remember buying it from Gamivo.com for ~10USD.