Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions
On Tue, 2023-03-21 at 21:21 -0400, Bruce wrote:
So, give me your thoughts as well as best practice that you use for
this kind of process...
With older laptops it was quite easy to remove the hard drive, new very
slim laptops are more like a sealed unit.
But my method of your kind of upgrade would be to set up your new
laptop as a completely new device. Get it working, experiment with it.
If you mess up the installation, it's perfectly safe to restart without
losing any of your data. And you have the opportunity to try other
releases, too.
Then, when you're happy with it, unplug your old laptop hard drive,
connect it to the new system via a USB/SATA docking station of some
kind, *copy* your user data onto the new system. Unplug your old hard
drive, and store it safely as a backup of your data.
For the "sealed device" problem, there are networking options you can
use to copy your own files over.
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