Or do a dual boot. My sister would trash laptops with viruses and malware and give them to me. I would wipe them and install Linux, usually Mint. I would use them to play music over the stereo.
I’m working on putting duel-boot on an 11-year-old Dell laptop using the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC as base with the latest Mint as the duel. That specific version of Win10 will be security updated until 2032 while all other options force you to Win11 now or soon.
Would like to report success but found some sectors on the old-style hard drive have gone bad and I’m trying different workarounds/repairs - strictly hardware failure from long use. That computer is my testing ground before applying this setup to my new one.
Once it’s done we’ll have Windows strictly for off-line gaming and a few apps with Linux handling normal day-to-day computer usage. WINE is fine for translating Windows programs until it doesn’t, so I decided to go greedy and have both OS’s available.