Hi.
Looking at getting another laptop.
Any thoughts on completely transferring as well as updating the data
on the current drive to the new laptop.
I populate my home directory on a new machine from the backup of the old machine. In the past I used NFS, but now my backups are on USB drives. It
Is helpful to have the old machine in working order to troubleshoot things
that break on the new system (usually my own programs that use a library that
is no longer available from distros — a hint that I need to find a newer library.
Assume I might be dealing with a diff flavor of linux. I'm not sure
what the new laptop will have.
I don't want bleeding edge fedora.. (unless I change my mind).
I don't want RHEL/centos -- I'd like to be newer.
So, give me your thoughts as well as best practice that you use for
this kind of process...
I find there are often issues with newer systems. At present, businesses are
dumping windows systems that won’t run Win11, so you can find higher end
laptops 2 or 3 years old at bargain prices. Many are excellent linux platforms,
but you need to check on
linux-hardware.org. There are often issues with display brightness, sound, or wifi. I deal with by updating the wifi and using a USB
sound dongle or a high end USB sound device.
Laptops this age generally allow you to upgrade internal wifi, RAM, and SSD. If
you are considering a big-name laptop with linux pre-installed, you may be able to