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.
generally speaking, no. you shouldn’t have a problem with most drives, it should at least boot. you might need to do something like install the right GPU driver though (and get rid of the old one) if they are a different brand or generation. obviously the driver for AMD isn’t going to work if the laptop has NVIDIA, but you also might need a newer or older version depending on what’s in the laptop. if the laptop has hybrid graphics, you might want to install something for that too.