After January 2020, we may see a flood of used laptops for sale ...

[m654321]

Did you actually do the Windows 10 upgrade or did you just look for driver support on the laptops website.

At the time, I did both, though I don't think it was the direct free upgrade route from Win7. If I remember correctly it was a fresh install, from a downloaded Win10 iso file from Microsoft's website.

You'll see from the footnote that our Dell D630 is a LL/Win8.1 dual-boot.  I did a bit of a cheat with that one: when my i7 Asus gaming laptop died, I removed it's fully-updated LL/Win8.1 SSD and put it directly into the 12-year-old Dell. The result made me laugh in disbelief, as it worked straight away, and continues to do all the regular Microsoft updates & patches! It's funny, as the Dell Latitude D630's last set of downloadable drivers on their support pages was for Windows Vista.  Also, the software apps I had on the i7-Asus seem to continue to work well on the Dell.

[size=1em]If I could sell Linux computers I'd be selling Linux computers however I can't even give a Linux computer away people want Windows 10 computers and not Linux computers. [/size]Sad isn't it.

Yes it's very sad, as they would save a lot of wasted time and money in the long-run. I think it's largely down to education. If you're brought up with Windows, used Windows through school & at work etc, and almost every computer sold comes installed with Windows, it's difficult to break the mindset, especially if you're a person (like most people) who don't particularly enjoy pottering around and experimenting with computer technology, or have the confidence to do so. I think these are the main reasons that only 3% of computer-users use Linux.