First post. Loaded AntiX base Luddite on an old dinosaur AMD Duron 950 with 256 MiB of ram and breathed new life into the old beast. Surfs the internet well with Midori and loaded Libre. Nice fully functioning system that is magnitudes faster than XP that was on it! I was so pleased I removed Debian from my"faster" laptop and loaded MX-14 full. Had a problem with the boot loader and used boot-repair-disk and it worked liked a charm. Now I am back to dual-booting(can't seem to let Windows go) and liking it. Only just started using it on my newer machine.

Cheers

Once you get hooked with Linux, you will fine yourself using Windoze less, and less as time goes by.
Myself I'am 100% Linux, I don't even use wine.

Welcome aboard.

Congrats and welcome to Linux, the distro, and the community. Depending on your needs and your laptop specs, you could run Windows in a VM; VirtualBox or VMware Player. I put together a how-to on running
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that might be helpful. The how-to needs a slight update - use only one CPU in the VM. Otherwise, you may experience issues using USB devices in the VM.

Welcome and Howdy. Enjoy a nifty distro.