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Went travelling back in 2015 and my laptop was already a 2011 model and starting to slow with Windows. I wasn't buying a new one just to travel with, money I'd rather spend on the trip.
I only needed it for movies and social media etc, maybe downloading photos from my camera.
Installed Ubuntu, so much nicer to be on and fun learning experience and then just never looked back.
Been 9 years and I havent moved home and I'm still on Linux (nixos now).