Thanks oe...I got it this morning and am exploring it 🙂 It's much smaller and lighter than my old dinosaur Toshiba laptop...it's an Acer Aspire E11.

I'm happy with it so far and will use it as is for now, I'll have a look at the newer Linux that are available and dual boot as you suggest later, after kicking and screaming about giving up my windows xp all that time ago I now find I prefer Linux....

My son has 8.1 so I am kind of familiar with it...my phone is Windows 10 (ugh, I know, it was all I could find when I needed one).

Off now to try putting some photos on it.....