So, I bought two of these laptops from Lenovo, one for my wife since her laptop croaked and she has been using mine, and one for my elderly mother-in law. They were on sale for a very good price, $129.00 US each.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/student-laptops/Lenovo-14w/p/81MQ000JUS
I knew they would be slightly 'under-powered' which may be O.K. and I knew they would come with Windows 10 (ugh!). They seem to be quite solid and well built. Sturdy little machines.
I've had both the mother-in-law and wife running Linux Mint for several years now without much, if any, problems.
My "quandary" is - do I wipe out the Win 10 and 'try' to install Linux on these, or just let them rock the Windows 10 for a while?
These machines came with surprisingly little "cruft" on them. No "Candy Crush" or any of that crap. Just mostly the Microsoft nosey big nose stuff trying to integrate and sync everything with Microsoft products. I set them up with an "offline" user account and then went through and shut off and/or deleted anything not wanted or needed. Then I used O-O Shut-Up-10 and O-O App Buster to shut down and remove anything else not wanted (I may have locked them down too much! oops). Gave one to my wife and out of the blue she asks me "can you install Linux on it?" Woah! I think I may have a 'convert' here!
Keep in mind the plan here is to have the least amount of 'tech support calls'. Any tech geek who has provided tech support to friends and family will know what I am referring to. They have no clue how a computer works and more importantly, they don't WANT a clue as to how it works! They want it to just work. (patience grasshopper)
The laptop comes with a 64 Gig M.2 hard drive soldered onto the board. Not much room for expansion or for a dual-boot scenario. It does have a SD card slot and several USB ports.
Decisions decisions .... what to do?...
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/student-laptops/Lenovo-14w/p/81MQ000JUS
I knew they would be slightly 'under-powered' which may be O.K. and I knew they would come with Windows 10 (ugh!). They seem to be quite solid and well built. Sturdy little machines.
I've had both the mother-in-law and wife running Linux Mint for several years now without much, if any, problems.
My "quandary" is - do I wipe out the Win 10 and 'try' to install Linux on these, or just let them rock the Windows 10 for a while?
These machines came with surprisingly little "cruft" on them. No "Candy Crush" or any of that crap. Just mostly the Microsoft nosey big nose stuff trying to integrate and sync everything with Microsoft products. I set them up with an "offline" user account and then went through and shut off and/or deleted anything not wanted or needed. Then I used O-O Shut-Up-10 and O-O App Buster to shut down and remove anything else not wanted (I may have locked them down too much! oops). Gave one to my wife and out of the blue she asks me "can you install Linux on it?" Woah! I think I may have a 'convert' here!
Keep in mind the plan here is to have the least amount of 'tech support calls'. Any tech geek who has provided tech support to friends and family will know what I am referring to. They have no clue how a computer works and more importantly, they don't WANT a clue as to how it works! They want it to just work. (patience grasshopper)
The laptop comes with a 64 Gig M.2 hard drive soldered onto the board. Not much room for expansion or for a dual-boot scenario. It does have a SD card slot and several USB ports.
Decisions decisions .... what to do?...