Opinions on how to run LL 3.8 (or 4.0) on Dell Latitude E5530 (long)

[JanetBiggar]

Thanks for your thoughts Trinidad, if they don’t come with anything on them it will actually make life easy for me as there won’t be any choice. I’ll be able to put on LL which is what I’d like to do anyway.

Interestingly a friend of mine that has managed to bring a few “company” laptops that have been rotated out of use did come with Win 7 and the product key worked fine despite being wiped and reinstalled...however that was a US company, not Canadian, so perhaps was larger and could afford the expense.

We’ll see...

[warhawk8080]

Hi again,

I sent my PS before seeing your reply!

Let's wait for confirmation of this, but my understanding is that (at least when I heard about it in the past) a linux comp could "carry" a Windows-targetted virus, but whether it could migrate accross partitions I don't know. I'd say it could get onto a usb drive then from there to an opened Win partition.

If that's the only way, ie it can't swim from LL partition to Win partition, then before releasing the Win pasword instruct user to avoid using old usb drives etc.

I'll be interested in more info re partitions being "quarantined" or not.

Windows without proper driver support to read ext4 or brtfs cannot even access those partitions, so there is no cross migration of anything

Also look at a free bootable CD image that can be started from USB called Ultimate Boot CD
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

There is also another way...setup with a windows system...then create a reboot/revert back to clean slate
https://www.howtogeek.com/166205/how-to-...-it-boots/
https://www.fortresgrand.com/products/cls/cls.htm
here is a list of alternatives...might be one that is free and open source
https://alternativeto.net/software/clean-slate/

mbox for linux
https://alternativeto.net/software/mbox/