After having some problems with my laptop, I have been thinking about getting a new one, and when Aldi had a special of a 14" Lenovo with Win11 and Microsoft 365 1 year licence for $299, it seemed too good a bargain to pass by.
However I had a couple of problems during the setup, all sorted now.When setting the keyboard options, I couldn't get it to swich from English (America) to English (Australia). I thought, well, it can't be too different, but when I tried to enter an email address to access the Microsoft account, it wouldn't enter the @ symbol, instead entering " . So I tried typing " , and voila, the @ appeared. Then I typed Shift3 and instead of hash, I got the English pound symbol (£). I went into Systems and turned on the onscreen keyboard, where I found that # was on a key that didn't exist on the physical keyboard. It was located to the right of the ] key.
I went back to Systems and looked at the language options, and decided to install English (New Zealand). Once that downloaded and installed, I was able to select English (Australia), the keys reverted to their usual functions.
Then I went to instal some of my favourite programs/apps. It said the system was in S mode and I couldn't download from outside the Microsoft shop. I had to turn off S mode, but was warned once turned off, it couldn't be turned back on. Stuff MS, I turned it off and downloaded my favourite apps.
A rather surreal experience.