Anyone know how to use the FEM analysis tools in FreeCAD?

[verbotenwhisky]

You can still run anything you want in any year your want, offline. Once you connect to the net, there are some updates you really do want need: the security patches and malware definitions. The world isn't survivable without them, and microsoft is a de facto monopoly. Sorry Apple users, you're a 1% oddity. Linux is the cure if you don't mind working through your OS install and learning open source alternatives.

I still have a couple machines running Windows 7 and 10 due to software I own which I use and will not run on newer, just put a really good Net security software on them. As far as Linux, some of the open source stuff isn't bad and with my current hardware an emulator would work okay for most of the Microshaft stuff... For the average joe though, you are correct, mox-nix...