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I want to take windows off of an all dell latitude E6400 that seems to be stuck in a stupid start up loop and i wanna try taking everything off and installing linux and try it out i am not completely illiterate with computers but i kinda just want to get a step by step maybe the best versions...

Did not see anything like this in the forums so here goes. Just purchased a Thinkpad X201 that came installed with Mint. Great laptop. I was able to connect with guest password on my home network (did not have my network password). Then did an update and wifi stopped working. Ethernet works...

I was given a pre war [lol] laptop. It has a actiontec moden card in it, 2x 64MB ram and 2 unknown cpu's but I bet they are 1ghz each. It had win-server 2000 installed on it. I was thinking on dropping kali on it because it has a floppy and a cdrom drive and a bunch of added ports for...