I’ve had similar experiences moving to Linux on various machines. I don’t yet understand the pattern. Why do some distros work better on some machines than others?

I have an original MS Surface Pro. Ubuntu works best on it, imo.

I have a 10 year old Asus laptop that has all kinds of seemingly random issues - currently on Mint but about to migrate to OpenSuse.

I have a 4 year old Dell laptop and it likes Garuda the best.

Go figure.

I love Ventoy for this reason. I can try 8 different distros till I find one that works best on a particular machine.

This process sounds very flexible. Got a link about how to set this up?

I’d also like to learn how to do this but it seems like a steep learning curve for a non-expert user. If you have any resources to share to learn this kung fu, please post

I’ve tried a few times to use Timeshift to restore to a new disk. Once it worked without any issue. This last time it did not and I suspect grub just needs to be rebuilt. I’ve read that it is always possible but Timeshift certainly doesn’t make it easy in every case

I do something similar but my live USB is just bootable Clonezilla. I’d like to hear more about why you use a live Ubuntu ssd.

Regarding Timeshift on btrfs, is the idea that Timeshift makes it easier to backup to a different disk versus using Snapper?

I’m also on btrfs and miss the wonders of Macrium Reflect. For now, in addition to Snapper, I’ve been using Clonezilla to make a disk image on occassion. I’m in the process of figuring out something like Vorta to replace that process.