I had an old Lenovo ideapad 110S lying around that had been all but killed by Windows 10. I am not exaggerating when I say it was completely and utterly unusable. For example, it was so slow that right clicking on a photo to move it onto external storage was met with that little loading symbol on the cursor, and a 10 second wait for the popup menu to even appear! Windows had not only decimated the performance, but there was no storage left as relentless Windows updates meant that Windows took up every megabyte of the poor old 28GB hard drive.
The obvious solution was to get rid of the cancer killing the laptop. While it put up a defence with misleading buttons in the BIOS thingymabob, Windows was purged once and for all. Lubuntu, a lightweight Linux distro, took its place and is now running beautifully as well as freeing up over 16GB of space on the hard drive. While the ideapad is a very weak laptop, it's smaller and lighter than my main laptop so I'll probably make use of it as a word processor and web browser I can carry around, and as you can see it is handy for updating my web site.
Excuse the dramatisation, I just wanted to make my first blog post somewhat entertaining, check back now and then for more!