I am planning to build a desktop myself but not sure about my skills to accomplish it because the BIOS set up and installations of drivers etc sound bit complicated for me. I am looking for only SSD for my storage and only linux mint as my OS but these are not commonly available in the market so I am planning to buy whatever is available in the market and then convert it into SSD based storage and linux based OS.
In this regard I thought I will buy a dell desktop for example dell inspiron 660s containing windows 7 or 8 and then connect SSD and then install linux into it.
Since I do not want the windows 8 or 7 that comes default with the dell desktop so I thought of permanently disconnecting the HDD hard drive that comes with the dell computer from the mother board first and then put the SSD inside the computer cabinet and attach it to the mother board with the appropriate SATA cable. Then while turning on the computer I will install the linux mint through a DVD and in the future I will use just the linux mint and keep the windows 7 or 8 permanently disconnected from the mother board. My computer use is limited to just some basic web browsing and there will not be any down loading, gaming etc so I guess I will use some 60 to 120 gb SSD which appears sufficient for my usage.
Can I use the above approach to 1) get rid of the windows 7 or 8 permanently and also to 2) get rid of the HDD too permanently so that I can use only the SSD and the linux in that desktop that I am going to buy from dell?
In this regard I thought I will buy a dell desktop for example dell inspiron 660s containing windows 7 or 8 and then connect SSD and then install linux into it.
Since I do not want the windows 8 or 7 that comes default with the dell desktop so I thought of permanently disconnecting the HDD hard drive that comes with the dell computer from the mother board first and then put the SSD inside the computer cabinet and attach it to the mother board with the appropriate SATA cable. Then while turning on the computer I will install the linux mint through a DVD and in the future I will use just the linux mint and keep the windows 7 or 8 permanently disconnected from the mother board. My computer use is limited to just some basic web browsing and there will not be any down loading, gaming etc so I guess I will use some 60 to 120 gb SSD which appears sufficient for my usage.
Can I use the above approach to 1) get rid of the windows 7 or 8 permanently and also to 2) get rid of the HDD too permanently so that I can use only the SSD and the linux in that desktop that I am going to buy from dell?
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