Even if you do not plan on multibooting your system, make a backup or you may lose your data!
IMPORTANT: HP and Lenovo laptops from this era have implemented a WiFi whitelist into their BIOSes. If you use a non-whitelisted component, you will either need to modify the BIOS to remove it or alter the whitelist. This guide does not support how to do this modification - you are on your own.
If you notice any hardware issues that cannot be corrected or are unsupported in Linux, such as WiFi cards, you will need to replace components in your system. our options may be limited by problems like a WiFi whitelist, commonly found on HP and Lenovo laptops of this era. This is not an issue with older Dell laptops.***
Before installing Linux, test drive the distro and make sure everything works. This is critical on these older systems.
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