The transplant was a success! Cloned my old spinning hard disk drive onto an SSD.

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PatKirby · M

Was a tough and tedious job for me. Much better now, but I still keep the old hard drive ready in the loader just in case. How did it go for you?

UnderLockDown · M

@PatKirby Easy deal. Changed to the newest OS version and cloned the drive in a little less than an hour.👍🐧
You run windows?

PatKirby · M

@UnderLockDown

You mean you stepped up to W11? Or did you do the Penguin thing?

UnderLockDown · M

@PatKirby I haven't used windows for several years, Linux saved me years ago and I never looked back.

PatKirby · M

@UnderLockDown

Actually considered Mint but I just bought a new computer (that wasn't compatible with W11, the TSM thing), and all that software I got like Photoshop and MS Office I paid for and grew accustomed to I'd have to give up. At the last minute MS offered me a year of free updates so I went with that.

UnderLockDown · M

@PatKirby Windows ate my bitcoin wallet (and everything else on my drive) during a forced update, I've had a healthy hatred for windows ever since. Linux has always felt more intuitive for me anyway, made the switch easy.