After some while rebuilding this computer, I have manged to duel boot Win ten and Zorin light, now to most of you this is not a big deal, but for me I got to the stage of watching so many videos and reading up how to do this, I took the plunge and yep this works a treat, thanks to all the posts that lead me in the right direction, now going to have a very large Scotch to celebrate, cheers. 
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Having some encouragement and believing in yourself often gets much more rewarding results than thinking 'you can't do it' or 'it's above the users ability.'
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"thinking 'you can't do it' was no doubt my problem!
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I just took the plunge yesterday and installed Zorin Lite with "Use whole disk" mode, erasing Windows 11 from my new laptop. I now have no working machines with Windows. (Also possible thanks to help in these forums.)
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Zorin is a great OS but I'm having a few problems at the moment, no doubt I will get some good advice, enjoy Zorin.
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Thanks, you too.
Yeah, my heart sank soon after wiping Windows. I couldn't get my wifi card to work any more! Fortunately I recreated all the various steps from the forum thread and got it working again.
But still a whole list of things to get through before I've got it set up exactly how I need it. Nose to the grindstone!
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I think many people want to leave windows but fear the learning curve, I will admit to being one of those people?
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For me the key has turned out to be "one thing at a time". (Blindingly obvious in hindsight.) A couple of months ago, I was trying to do all things on all devices all at once (further Zorin changes on HP G4, set up Zorin/sort out hard drive on Lenovo Ideapad 330, set up Zorin/sort out wifi on new Lenovo Ideapad 1, fix mum's old iPad). Not surprisingly, I was going nuts.
Now I try to focus on one machine at a time, and one issue at a time, until that machine is sorted. And take a Timeshift snapshot after each issue is sorted. (I only divert to a different issue on another machine while waiting for something, e.g. answer in forum, re the current principal machine and current issue.)
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Sounds like a solid plan, I must remember that!
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