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I'm not sure. I challenge you to put a windows 7 or 10 boot disk into a brand new PC and see if you don't encounter any issues in the installation. I definitely recall running into problems. One of the big ones was often no working wifi/ethernet drivers, so you couldn't even install new drivers.

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I could install Windows2000 on that machine, it was delivered with Windows7 and Windows10 works too (lenovo T61p)...the Ethernet drivers are really not a problem and wireless works without problems even on Windows2000, same with the Nvidia drivers...works on all 3 Windows's.

Challenge Accepted and won.

>(lenovo T61p)

Not the person you're responding to but I wouldn't call a T61p brand new, it was released in 2012 after all.

Yes let's throw it away because Linux is like Windows...just buy new stuff, 10 years is really to old.

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