A great way to recycle an ageing laptop - though as a confirmed hater of all things Google, i'll probably avoid it lie the plague - lol. I've been doing the same with all of mine over the years, with what I consider to be an even better variety of OS's - Linux (current prefered distro is Linux Mint - I esspecially get immense pleasure in banishing Windows bloatware from all the laptops i rescue - lol).

Good luck with your re-vitalised laptop and thanks for sharing.