Don't fall for the trap

And when your radio is broken, you don't ask a composer

Did that for my sister but nowadays I just use the excuse: "Sorry I can't help you, I don't use Windows anymore".

The real problem is when a relative know that I'm computer guy and ask me to fix the TV/air conditioner or like my father once did: setup an antenna

Did that, kind of. The system's been running flawlessly for like a decade now. I'm not sure if they even understand the difference.

Or even better, install Emacs and run away laughing wildly! Bwahahahaha!

Computer science has absolutely nothing to do with support, they are totally different fields with totally different skill sets.

That also holds for computer science and programming :)

and "actually needing Microsoft support but coming to you cause Microsoft doesn't give a shit about private end users"

Tis is the same

Yeah, just read that their newest server OS puts a recovery partition to the right of the primary partition by default.
Which is completely useless on a server, and prevents you from growing the partition when you run out of space.

At this point, they're basically saying "Office and AD guarantee our monopoly, so we can push out literal monkey shit, and tell admins to deal with it."

Stare at their computer blankly
"Wait, they got rid of the green hill????"

I do that too but only because it's much easier to help my relatives with Linux than those with Windows.

I even "convert" some people because Llinux is easier for them if I just manage it. I had a neighbor that was using Window on a very old computer, it was slow and choking under the weight of simple updates. Plus, she was always asking me why her computer kept rebooting by itself while it was obviously Windows update. So I installed Mint and all the problems went away.

Anyway I don't want to have to deal with Microsoft accounts, licenses, office365, the general bloat, the ads, the new versions of Windows... I have enough at work, so if I am going to help on my free time, it has to be on the OS I find easier to deal with.

What is a number, that a man may know it?

Lets start with natural numbers and define the integers, rational, real and complex numbers as solutions to certain equations.

and a man, that he may know a number?

Now you asked for to much.

Step-IT, can you help me with my hard drive problem?

imo - you are not the outlier, you just haven't yet progressed to the mostly inevitable stage where people take advantage of your help, or their spyware ridden dumpster fire of a laptop breaks and they blame you because you "touched it last" - never mind that was 6 months ago and the only thing you did was change the screensaver timeout.

I like helping people, but not with what I do for my day job. Ask me to shovel your driveway or help you move or proofread your emails or anything but more of what I’ve already spent all day doing.

I used to work in IT, and both then when I was on my personal time, and now, I do not love helping people, but all it takes is someone else doing it poorly would annoy me enough I would end up helping someone

I'm with you but there's definitely a line that gets crossed fairly often when you help people out with these things.

The biggest career mistake I've ever made is opening an Excel macro and changing two characters to make it count a thing again.

I was then permanently labelled Cracks the Technomancer, master of all things technology. It fucking sucks.

Using Apple requires a PhD in computer science.