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User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 18:31:18 -0000 Polytropon(freebsd@edvax.de)@2017.09.05 20:26:42 +0200: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:17:07 +0100, John Chapman wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a well used laptop that had Windows Vista on when I bought it. > > As you know Windows no longer supports Vista and I don't see the > > point in upgrading at great expense. > > That's fully correct. There is no value in dealing with "Vista" > anymore. > > > > > Is it possible to just uninstall Windows and download FreeBSD. > > It is not needed to uninstall "Windows". Basically, it's even > technically impossible to _un_install "Windows" because it does > not have a means to do so. ;-) > We use defenstration to uninstall Windows https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defenestration -karl