you shouldn't, it's well supported

no

W10 works on everything

the screen is a 17" matte 16:10. just try to find anything with that

it'll be the bios that'll fuck you up if anything

it definitely will

the BIOS is unaffected

you dolt

hasn't it offered you a w10 upgrade via windows update?

thats why i never replaced the laptop, ive replaced a few parts here and there

W10 installer has issues with some legacy bioses, Coolitic, it's why it won't install on my old laptop

it works on legacy BIOS

Mate the BIOS is just the boot system of the motherboard. Has nothing to do with operating systems.

you have to select the option

Yes, it does, but not all of them

there are ways to install it properly

the bootloader is not an issue

Well that's not Microsoft are telling me

is there a bootable dvd win10 'tester'?

uhh

You can download the iso's from their website, System11

I dont think they have a Live CD

To my understanding Microsoft no longer offers direct upgrades for windows 10.

Windows update on my laptop says otherwise, Gespa

shame. i suppose the only way to test it would be to sling a spare hard drive in

You’ll notice I said “to my understanding”, Eccles.

Could resize your partition and install on that, System11

Bit of a risk attached

yeah id rather not break it, i have one of the old drives. its a raid supporting system and i replaced the twins when one died and put a single SSD in

Sounds like you have a plan then

Good luck with whatever you decide to do

I quit trying to upgrade my laptop because it wasn't sufficiently important, and microsoft "professionals" were just being shit

if it cant take win 10 ill have to find linux alternatives for a few things and do that

I tried Linux for a year - it's shit

Shouldn’t be hard. There’s plenty of resources online

Ehh not shit. Just different.

Also really depends on the distro you want to go with.

Tried a few different ones, but mostly they suffered from the thing linux has suffered since i first tried it 20 years ago - poor hardware support

That and Steam linux support... just isn't there yet

Better than it was the last time i tried it, but still not there yet

ive been using linux so long i made my own distro back in the slackware days. i dont use it because i have to use speech recognition software and it behaves better on windows