“Husband was thinking of trying to ‘bisect’ (or whatever you geeks call it) and run both Windows and Linux; but we were so happy with Linux, we forgot about that.”
The same thing happened to me. I added Linux “along side” Win 7 as what Microsoft calls “dual boot”. After using Linux for a couple weeks I realized I would never need MS again. That was over ten years ago and I have not looked back since. And as MS just gets worse and worse by the day I am happier and happier that I changed over.
I've had to do a System Restore 4 times since December [you can put off the forced update for about 5 weeks], because they changed the functioning of the desktop without a by-your-leave, taking away some of the features that I liked.
I should have my dual-boot in place by the middle of May.