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Ohhh I never thought about a recycled laptop, that's a really great idea. I had a laptop that lasted me 8-9 years so 3 isn't a problem lol. Does double booting have to do with how much memory a computer has to be able to store both OS'?
Dual booting is more about hard drive space. This is a fairly good write up on one way to do it - basically you get a Windows laptop, and then shrink the partition (say instead of 100% of the 512gb storage, you make Windows take up 50%) and install Linux along side the Windows operating system.
Every time you start the laptop, you'll then have the option to boot into Windows or Linux.