floppys & diskettes

[Gribouillis]

I am ithinking of converting my laptop to Ubuntu.

Don't throw away Windows until you have a good experience of Linux. You would miss your favorite Windows apps when it is too late to go back. If you don't want to buy a new laptop, you could install a dual boot first. Linux will take only a portion of your disk space and you can have the best of the two worlds. Only you cannot have both running at the same time, but you will be able to transfer files between the Linux partition and the Windows partition.