There are some users who have grown beyond the need for Windows and have decided to remove it from their systems.

Really this is only a step that one should take once you have used Linux full time for quite a while and know how to use the system for your needs. Removing Windows isn't completely necessary but some Linux users will want to do this.

There are a couple of ways of doing this. The first would be to partition the hard drive so that you have a Linux partition and a Windows partition. The assumption here is that you already have an installed Linux operating system that you are using and have been duel booting for quite sometime.

The easiest way is to simply reformat and remove the Windows partition making it blank space again and possibly combining back with you Linux partition. You can also just keep the Windows partition once erased and have this for storage space so that you won't mess anything up while trying to combine partitions if you don't know what you are doing.

The other strategy is to boot up on a Live CD with your Linux distribution of choice and install it to the system. Instead of installing it to a partition, you choose to install it and completely write over everything on the entire hard drive. But be very careful! This will delete Windows and everything else completely. Before going through this step one should consider the advantages of also having a copy of Windows on the system because there are still many functionalities that only work with Windows. Always being able to go back and use Windows for a certain application is something that can be valuable. It's understandable when you have a small hard drive that you might need to get rid of it as it takes up quite a bit of space, but don't throw it out just yet even if you love Linux.