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Bought an extra stick of memory and a 1tb ssd for a used 2013 laptop. Made a usb iso of mint, put the new memory in, stuck the clean ssd in (zero formatting), booted the device from the usb and installed mint.

Granted I know the learning curve really begins now but, unless someone is absolutely against learning something new, I heartily recommend at least trying a user friendly linux distro like mint.

FYI: Tor browser is much faster.

Bought an extra stick of memory and a 1tb ssd for a used 2013 laptop. Made a usb iso of mint, put the new memory in, stuck the clean ssd in (zero formatting), booted the device from the usb and installed mint. Granted I know the learning curve really begins now but, unless someone is absolutely against learning something new, I heartily recommend at least trying a user friendly linux distro like mint. FYI: Tor browser is much faster.
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I just did the same thing. I have an old Getac laptop that I was thinking of getting rid of and Linux on an ssd woke it right up. I've been using Linux in some form since 1996, and while I did learn a lot from distros like Slackware, I'm at a point where I just want the stuff to mostly just work. Mint is nice, easy to install and maintain, and if I f*ck it up, it has timeshift to bring it right back.

Have fun with it.