Hi George. The laptop in question would be one of the AMD 5 ryzen 6/10 core systems from the hp site. I'd add mem/1TB internal drive as well. thanks for your comments! On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:05 AM George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:21 PM bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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 > check the specs at linux-hardware.org. > > -- > George N. White III > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
