The laptop had long missed the cutoff date for the free Windows 10 upgrade and I was resigned to donating or recycling the near unusable laptop. My partner recently upgraded to a new personal laptop, leaving behind a sputtering one with a broken hinge running an operating system that is old enough to start thinking about high school (Windows 7). So here you are, at the most recent result after typing "install ubuntu linux samsung np530u3c" in your favorite search engine. Then I realized that the very reason I was successful in bringing this laptop back from the dead was because I was able to cobble bits and pieces together from several of these 7+ year old 'similar but different' guides to get everything working. At first I thought there was no point in writing this post since I read several similar guides on this same exact process. A quick look at how I revived a 2012 Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook with a little twist of installing Linux on a peculiar type of storage flavoring of the era, a solid state "drive" + hard disk drive combination.
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