Dedicate laptop to *nix only?
by marcdw from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5CW8A)
This is sort of a thinking-out-loud thing.
About ten years ago I bought a laptop for a coworker. I haven't seen her in some years until recently. She said she doesn't use it much and asked if I'd like it back. Sure thing, why not.
It's a ThinkPad SL510 with Intel Core2 Duo processor, 8GB RAM, 250GB HD.
When I got it back I was surprised to find it was pretty much in the same condition as when I bought it. Not a speck of dust or scratch on it, just a dead battery (recently replaced). The Windows 7 Home was also barely touched. With the exception of personal photos/videos everything else was as is. The Opera and Comodo Dragon browsers and other apps I installed were never upgraded and no new apps were added.
I partitioned the the drive and did some Linux non-systemd distro hopping on it. Currently using MX Linux.
Wondering: Since I have no ties to the Win7 installed (not linked to my Microsoft accounts) do you think I should just wipe out the Windows OS and recovery partitions and dedicate the laptop to Linux only?
I already have an Asus laptop with Win7 Ultimate and Slackware so probably don't need another Win installation.
If I decided to do so, any recommendations on a preferably non-systemd distro. MX Linux is nice but maybe something else? To be honest I wouldn't mind re-acquainting myself with BSD but not sure any of them would work on this laptop.
About ten years ago I bought a laptop for a coworker. I haven't seen her in some years until recently. She said she doesn't use it much and asked if I'd like it back. Sure thing, why not.
It's a ThinkPad SL510 with Intel Core2 Duo processor, 8GB RAM, 250GB HD.
When I got it back I was surprised to find it was pretty much in the same condition as when I bought it. Not a speck of dust or scratch on it, just a dead battery (recently replaced). The Windows 7 Home was also barely touched. With the exception of personal photos/videos everything else was as is. The Opera and Comodo Dragon browsers and other apps I installed were never upgraded and no new apps were added.
I partitioned the the drive and did some Linux non-systemd distro hopping on it. Currently using MX Linux.
Wondering: Since I have no ties to the Win7 installed (not linked to my Microsoft accounts) do you think I should just wipe out the Windows OS and recovery partitions and dedicate the laptop to Linux only?
I already have an Asus laptop with Win7 Ultimate and Slackware so probably don't need another Win installation.
If I decided to do so, any recommendations on a preferably non-systemd distro. MX Linux is nice but maybe something else? To be honest I wouldn't mind re-acquainting myself with BSD but not sure any of them would work on this laptop.