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Is there anything wrong with taking my ssd with mint out of my desktop and slapping it in an old laptop? I actually tried it and it seems to have booted up perfectly. How does it know what drivers to use automatically? Its pretty sweet that it works this easily.

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[–] pmk@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, unfortunately. Everything is better now. We don't even have to generate a new xorg.conf anymore and worry about getting the refresh rate wrong.