[Zhang Fei]

[So, I have an older HP laptop that was drowning in MS Win7]

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If it takes a SATA drive, YMMV, but you may be able to keep it functional with an SSD drive by reinstalliing Win 7. 5⁰0gb typically costs ~$50. My 14 year old desktop went from booting in 5 minutes before the switch down to 30 seconds afterwards.

[HKMk23]

I did like Win7; my acer laptop still runs it, and I’ve zero plan to ever upgrade that. (Famous Last Words, I know)

I have an old COMPAQ that runs XP.

But my HP is a Linux experiment. I liked how it was working, and even used it to Remote in to my office quite a bit. But, it has an NVIDIA graphics card, and that’s been a notorious source of pain in the Linux community, so — yeah.