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There are several ways of doing this, but you have to be wary of how grub is configured to boot off the disks, and how your /etc/fstab is configured.
The simplest way probably is to just put the old ssd in a USB case, boot off a live usb/cd, then dd the disk (make sure you do it the right way around or there will be tears), then reboot. There are a couple ways this could fail still depending on config, but you can always put the old disk in if it does. Then once you’re in the system you can use tools like parted/kde partition manager to resize the volumes once decrypted. – And you will have your old disk as a backup the entire process.
If you want to get more comfortable with this type of work install arch / gentoo and you will learn more of the underline processes making you more confident.
Using btrfs with subvolumes to mount different disks in different locations. To maintain an “OS” disk and “what really matters” disk.
I like the idea and have been meaning to build / find something like this however this does a little too much and in not quite the way I want. But it’s cool for those who need this exact implementation.
Using Gentoo might work if you enable the KDE overlay: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Ebuild_repository
Gentoo supports slots; which allows for concurrent installations of things like desktop environments. Not sure if it’s configured that way right now though.
If you use BTRFS you could install gentoo on a subvolume and boot into it when needed too.
This. However from about the release of knoppix and ubuntu things started looking and feeling a lot more like they are today. – I credit that to Knoppix for X & filesystem work and Ubuntu for setup and everything desktop.
So even though late 90s it was tough, it was nothing like mid 90s. But by around 2004-2005ish the install and setup was substantially easier however the reputational damage still exists to today.
I remember spending a lot of time in XFree86 config files, re-configuring it trying to figure out what works best on my monitor, and then the migration to XOrg. All good times.
There was however a substantial amount of hype around Linux. It wasn’t quite what it is with AI. But you couldn’t read a magazine without encountering it in some way, but it was the type of hype were everyone knew of it but few people had anything to do with it.
Another thing that hadn’t been mentioned is that there was a new distribution cropping up every day or so. (It felt like at least.) But this seems to back up that statement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
That can happen if you make a major change such as major update to the binaries (ie a software update) while the screen is locked. Or because the screen “saver” / “locker” crashed.
That’s a … really well defined threat…
That’s very coldwaresq behavior
Gentoo, after a 15 year break where I used Ubuntu / Arch. Might try NixOS or something similar.
KDE for desktop env.