an attempt to find a shop selling Windows 7 media was a dismal failure
@Alyx Windows 7 stops getting security updates early next year. It's probably not worth the effort of finding media at this point anyway.
I like Windows 10 so I'm probably not much help though, Sorry.
@Alyx I had a system I ran Linux on in grad school, and probably won't again.
Windows 10 will soon let you download an entire Linux kernel as a feature (WSL 2), and a lot more of Windows got open sourced this year, so Windows is clearly the New Linux anyway 🤣