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Thank you for the kind replies. Basic specs are Intel I7 3930 chip, motherboard is Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5, Crucial SSD, Ram is currently 1 stick of 4gb, but I can go to 32gb. I do have some old laptops though - IBM Thinkpads T42, T400, X60s and a Dell Precision M4600.

Basic Windows user, I was originally looking to preserve Windows 7 till the end of time, but am now looking at Linux to avoid Windows 10. I keep seeing reference to different distros and flavours of Linux and am wondering some things. If I buy older hardware form Ebay, eg like an IBM Thinkpad...