That sounds great Pepe but that is in a company setting with people trained at a pretty high level for tech support departments or possibly hired outside support. We take our knowledge for granted. You can't expect others to have this knowledge. It is unrealistic.

Having said that, maybe I am being a little too optimistic about newbies to computers (because I am fully aware that people like Pepe and myself take our knowledge for granted) but I believe single users could learn to manage their computer much more quickly if Microsoft embraced teaching them early how to do it with software designed to support that learning. I am not an expert on how to teach computer maintenance to beginners. However here are some random ideas. Have it on a sheet when they buy the computer. Tie it in with the popup that wants them to install the latest update (allow them to reprint the sheet maybe). Maybe have a window with the steps and links to more detailed help. I would have loved to have this kind of assistance when I bought Win7 pro. You will need to get them excited about this dry stuff. Give them the option to clean their machine first (with instructions and software to help) or update it without cleaning it. I just think that over the long term Microsoft would be farther ahead with this approach rather than unexpectedly updating computer full of junk (malware, incomplete uninstalls, driver problems, whatever).

John

P.S. I think it is time to close this thread down (or at least I am going to sign off since I have some market trading goals for this week I really want to focus on). So to bring it back to the original topic I don't think there is a big enough market for putting BIAB on Linux and I assume the people at PG Music know this. I highly doubt that BIAB will ever run on Linux. Three things prompted me to ask regardless (I enjoyed Linux when I knew it well, my former guitar student who uses only Linux can not use BIAB and yes (Pepe is correct) Windows10 was ticking me off by starting to force an update unexpectedly before I had a chance to clean up the machine and I was not in a position with my busy schedule to return the image I first took so it could work on a clean machine instead). It has been a very interesting thread. I learned a number of things and I am sure others did too. Have a great summer.

John Bowles
My playing in my 20s:
https://www.reverbnation.com/johnbowles