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.
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.'
"thinking 'you can't do it' was no doubt my problem!
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.)
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.
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!
I think many people want to leave windows but fear the learning curve, I will admit to being one of those people?
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.)
Sounds like a solid plan, I must remember that!