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  • It was already mentioned that you can swap your hard drive /SSD easily and pretty cheap, but you can also use an old thumb drive and install a bootable USB version of Linux to test it out. While not ideal, this is probably a free since you may have an old USB thumb drive laying around.

    Allows you to test Linux as well as test the rest of the laptop hardware to make sure it’s working properly (if the USB booting works well, it’s probably just your existing hard drive.