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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If Windows cannot be installed and the storage upgraded, then you got ripped-off big time. You got a piece of junk.
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There are XP, Vista and Windows 10 netbooks (XP with 4G Flash), and laptops and tablets (Win10 with 32G Flash) that can't have storage increased. In fact I installed 64 bit Debian on a 64 bit Atom tablet that had only 32 bit UEFI / Boot and could no longer even update 32 bit Win10 due to lack of space.
The 32 bit or 64 bit Linux can be easily used on 32G storage and 1.5 G RAM.
Also many 64 bit Atoms deliberately lack I/O pins and/or Mobo support and are limited to 4G of RAM. Current Windows really needs about x4 cpu power of Mate desktop on Linux, 256 G storage, 8 G RAM and at least an Intel integrated GPU. Linux doesn't need a GPU at all for Mate desktop (the XFCE and a couple of other desktops need even less CPU). Also Linux can use as little as 800 x 600 screen with suitable desktop and font settings. Windows 10/11 needs 1024 x 768 minimum, ideally 1920x1080 minimum.
It's best not to buy a Chromebook, unless cheap S/H and you know it's a model that can run Linux. Hardly any can run Windows. Netbooks originally only had Linux and then MS paid makers to install XP. Linux worked much better on those.