Is there an M.2 SSD port on my laptop?

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You're very welcome.

You can never be too careful with electronics, and the wristband is just that. Being (way) too careful. If you aren't dragging your feet on a carpet while handling the parts you should be fine, with or without the precautions. Generally it's a good idea to avoid touching the chips or the contacts on the motherboard and the upgrade parts, but I know that some people will go to extremes like wearing gloves just to be on the safe side, so I guess this is a matter of personal taste....

Linux is an entirely different ballgame, the good thing with Zorin is that it's plug-n-play. However, as with every linux distro, if you run into any problems it's a real pain debugging it. There are also certain compatibility issues with Windows programs, and these two reasons are probably why most people stick with Windose, even when they know that some of M$ decisions are totally ridiculous. For example, the Kaby Lake 7th gen HQ CPUs are supposed to be too weak for Win11, when in fact I have some systems with these and they run Win11 better than the more recent Intel-U CPUs. Frankly, I wouldn't worry too much about Win10 becoming unsupported. For the next 3 years Microsoft offers the paid security updates -which will in effect become available to everyone through other channels- and the software devs (Google for example) will still maintain their programs for Win10 these 3 years. In a recent development, MS has made the first year of the ESU free and available to everyone. I expect we'll be seeing more of these U-turns these following three years.

One last thing. As I said in my previous post I still have Win7 as a dual-boot option on some old computers (Intel Core 2 Duo for example). Even though Windows 7 is supposedly an "abandonware" OS, I still get security updates (and will continue to do so until 2026) by using third party patchers. Seeing how popular Windows 10 is right now, I'm positive it will be maintained (at least when it comes to security patches) for many more years after the ESU program ends (2028).