Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-23 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2023-03-22 at 08:45 -0400, bruce wrote: > What I've got on my rough process is a complete list of installed > apps as well as libs/files from the different sys dirs... and the var > dirs.. Most libs (and other system files) will be installed by whatever packages you install (that's if

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-22 Thread Geoffrey Leach
You might have a look at https://starlabs.systems/. Designed and supported in the UK. Custom mfg in China. On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:13:03 -0500 Roger Heflin wrote: > I have been buying the lowest priced HP/Acer/ASUS that has the > features I want. I don't know that there is much difference

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-22 Thread Roger Heflin
I have been buying the lowest priced HP/Acer/ASUS that has the features I want. I don't know that there is much difference between them, and I am not sure who the real maker/designed of the laptop is. See the ODM section on this page; From that it becomes clear you have zero idea who really

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-22 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:36 PM bruce wrote: > 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. > I'm careful to have a 2nd power source laptops (these days a 3rd party USB C charger can

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-22 Thread bruce
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 wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:21 PM bruce wrote: >> >> Hi.

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-22 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:21 PM bruce 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

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-22 Thread bruce
hi Tim. thanks. Hadn't even thought of the possibility issue of not being able to access the internal components for upgrading. Another issue. What I've got on my rough process is a complete list of installed apps as well as libs/files from the different sys dirs... and the var dirs.. I've

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-21 Thread Tim via users
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

Re: curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/21/23 18:21, bruce wrote: Looking at getting another laptop. Any thoughts on completely transferring as well as updating the data on the current drive to the new laptop. 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

curious -- looking for thoughts/opinions

2023-03-21 Thread bruce
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. 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