If you have a spare drive around, you could try installing Linux on that.  OR, you could create a virtual machine inside Windows 10 and install it there.  That's giving that your main drive has enough free space for it.  Or just stay on Windows 10 and take stronger security measures.  You have some option here. But honestly.  Just because Windows 10 will be going EOL in a couple of months isn't the end of the road.  The OS will still run just fine.  Most games and software will still be supported for a few more years at least.  Hardware drivers on the other hand, well that's another story.

Windows 11 I can adjust to. I am more worried about my mom as she is relearning Windows 10 and keeps forgetting the basics at her age (turns out she kept hitting the button to shut down Windows 10, forgetting about the Start button, which I had taught her to use, and she once did know).  With Microsoft changing Windows more and more to look like a touch screen OS, it just means me having to be at my mom's, more and more to teach her the basics repeatedly. I remember those "Windows for Dummies" books. DO they still make them? My mom needs an updated one lol. We live in a world that is "look online for this and that," but that isn't cutting elderly people like my mom and just making more work for me. It is annoying. But getting her a different OS is not the way to go with my mom. I realize that now.

What I need is a way to make it easier for her and I can't figure out any. Windows, the more it includes, the more confusing it will be for her. She does not use a cell phone and even though she is finally using the Tablet her brother gave her for her birthday 5+ years ago before he died, the battery may be going on that. I was wondering if a new tablet or a laptop with Android on it may be the way to go but I realize it won't be as she always has to ask me how to do this and that on there as well.

As for me, I will adjust. My computer can do Windows 11. But I will wait as long as possible to switch to it. I do feel lied to by MS when they said Win10 would be the last one. No point in fighting it. But in my mom's case, it is still a problem needing a solution.

Any ideas for her? By the way, her computer CAN handle Win 11 (that small slow one) but she is already complaining how slow it is...

I was but not at this time. It was more that I didn't have a good laptop (netbook from 2010 would only handle up to Win 7 Basic). I got better from my dad now (really crap but good enough to take with me just to look things up when going to my mom's to work on her computer). It can't handle Win 11 though (only my main PC can and my mom's PC) but for the time being it was useful.

What is the yellow one for?

The yellow one is just a note.  Read it you want.  But it's really just good for scrap paper honestly.

Did you notice that green piece of paper that in your tool bar?  That is your bonus starter kit, if you choose to use it.  It gives you some okay tools, a pistol with some ammo, some food and water and some med kits.  Also, a miner helmet with a helmet light and a bicycle to get around on.  If you find yourself in a bit of a pickle, that would be a good time to use it.

I wonder, what ever happened to this group?  They had a great sound.