I had 2 Win 7 machines, one desktop and this hp laptop. About the time MS started pushing windows 10, I pulled the HDD’s out of both, replaced them with SSD drives and installed Linux Mint.
Everything I do, which is almost exclusively web browsing, works just as well on Linux as it did with Windows, including wireless connectivity and broadcasting to my TV from the laptop using chromecast.
For what I’m doing, Linux is now just as easy to use as Windows and I couldn’t be happier. Now I know for sure I’m the one that decides which version of the OS I want to run, not MS.
[[Everything I do, which is almost exclusively web browsing, works just as well on Linux as it did with Windows, ]]
Yup- it does everythign you need it to do that windows can do online-
What I did was install windows 10 from their free download ISO- then installed linux right along side it- I now dual boot- for when i want to run windows only programs- but i don’t allow windows to access the Internet- when i want to use Internet I boot back into linux