[PLUG] Suggestions for featherweight laptop

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2017, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote:

> And finally, is there any magic I need to know about when installing MINT
> and overwriting Windows and other crapware? I see some people have had
> problems installing MINT. (But I'll settle for any decent version of
> Linux.)

Dave,

   The first thing I do with a portable (except for the one with linux
installed and those in which I put in a new hard drive) is run cfdisk and
repartition it. That leaves a clean disk ready for installing your
distribution of choice and there's no M$ dust bunnies anywhere.

Rich