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Re:Time to Move On – Stéphane Graber by fsckboy on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:46PM (#36675850)
with linux? i swap hard drives all the time
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Re:Time to Move On – Stéphane Graber by pjmlp on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:51AM (#36676878)
With whatever OS you like.

Good luck switching hard drives on locked down customer provided laptops, or from the own IT on the consulting firm for that matter.

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Re:Time to Move On – Stéphane Graber by fsckboy on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:22AM (#36691045)
no, not whatever OS you like. Windows installations are coded against doing this. You can copy your Windows partition to a new disk and insert that, carefully, but you can't plug it into a different motherboard.

but you can with Linux.

I've never tried it with MacOS but the days of swapping Apple harddrives are in the past anyway.

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