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I don't own a laptop. My wife's laptop is fiercely guarded and off limits. 'Everything works. Don't touch it. You'll break it'.

I resurrected a Sony Vaio (colourful pink) that was my daughter's 18th birthday present and is 12 years old. Battery dead but works on mains power. Windows 7. Disk sounds like Concorde taking off.

Installed Linux Mint. Works fine. Less disk access. Still slightly sluggish but perfectly fine for my Windows to Linux demo.

Still think there's an opportunity here.

After my Windows to Linux chat with my friend, I had to install Wine to see whether it could run his Bridge program (ancient native Windoze application) and hey, guess what, it could.

I have used Linux for many years. Heard all about Wine but never needed it. Neat software.

The final touch was that he thought the latest Windows 10 updates had broken this program for him. A little digging revealed it was actually a over zealous anti-virus program that mistakenly listed it as a Trojan.

Me to a mate - 'It's like plumbers and funeral directors. People will _always_ need help with printers'.

Ah excellent. @davep@fosstodon.org has explained in detail how to create themes for Blogmore. Certainly need to play with that before actually writing a new blog post.