I bought a used laptop where Linux was pre-installed and now I would like to replace Linux with Windows. I had a USB stick and tried to boot the laptop with it, but an error message was displayed.
am I doing it wrong or is there another way?
It would be nice if you also mention the error message…
And how did you prepare the USB stick? Of course, an empty USB stick won't do you any good…
Then try a 📀 DVD
Am i doing it wrong
Since "a" error message came up: Yes, you are doing it wrong.
Set the stick as "First Boot"?
Created the stick with "Creation Tool"?
The error message would help us a lot.
Could I download it directly with the iso file without a boot stick?
You have to make the stick bootable and then extract the ISO onto it.
Or look here
Install Windows 10 on Linux
you do not want that!
You want to install Windows on a used laptop. What does this have to do with Linux?
If an error message came up when trying to install Windows, then it is already from the program (maybe also from the BIOS / EFI) that is on the stick.
Some older devices can't handle ISO files as offered by Microsoft (or others). But it should work with a DVD.
Another question is whether computer games on the laptop (I don't see any other sense if someone wants to swap a modern operating system for Windows)
bring the joy of playing.
If you can burn a multi-layer DVD and the laptop has a DVD drive then yes.
… And pay attention to the right architecture: 32-bit computers do not run a 64-bit operating system (the other way around).
There are also a great many games for Linux that
