• 30p87@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Does your Windows do this? *doesn’t crash*

    But seriously, yesterday I cloned my main partition to a new laptop into an LVM volume on LUKS. Because I did not have any way of putting the new NVMe and old SATA SSD into one machine, I just used netcat over an ad hoc network.

    nc -l 10000 > /dev/main/root
    

    on the new Laptop and

    cat /dev/sda3 | nc 10.31.69.1 10000 -q 0
    

    on the old one. Worked perfectly. Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots.

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      11 months ago

      Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots

      More like do that in Windows with any tools. It doesn’t like being moved to different hardware one bit.

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        11 months ago

        The only problems with my Arch install were

        • /etc/fstab, which I forgot about because I didn’t read the whole install article again
        • custom configs (notable conky) because i8k is not available and all interfaces changed
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            11 months ago

            I’d guess many distros would’ve had errors with preinstalled and configured helpers. Debugging them would be a pain

            Gentoo, LFS, Arch etc. are installed manually, so one typically knows their system very well, including packages and configs they might have to hard configure interfaces etc. in