How old is the laptop?
I have an ancient laptop (maybe 10 years old) that I use for connecting to guitar gear via usb and general browsing. It dual boots Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and Ubuntu by default, but there are no Linux drivers for any of the Boss or TC Electronics software apps, so that means having to boot into Windows. Every time I do that, the machine grinds to a halt downloading Windows updates and I forget what I switched it on for!
I've toyed with the idea of installing an SSD, and maybe going for some sort of lightweight Linux instead of Ubuntu, but the machine is so old I don't think it's worth spending any time or money on.