If I have Linux installed on an SSD and I plug it into a Windows computer (a PC which I did not use to install linux onto the SSD), would I be able to use linux in that PC from the SSD?
Should word provided the PC is EFI/UEFI enabled and theres an EFI partition for the linux install.
In fact thats exactly how Pop_OS handles it. So, my system uses a single drive, but i have EFI paritions for linux and windows. THe fact that its a single drive or multiple doesnt really matter there.
Yes, but with some preparation. First, secure boot has to be disabled. Then you need a FAT32 esp partition on your SSD which has to become the system boot partition. Easiest way is unpluging all other hard drives and ssds and tgen installing the linux distribution of your choice to the ssd. You can install different drivers for all circumstances, it is for example no problem to have drivers for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs installed, only the right one will be loaded. You can also optionally prepare your ssd linux for mbr systems if you want compability with really old systems. Archwiki has a good article about that iirc.
It should work. There might be driver errors. But hopefully it will work.
You just have to make sure there is a EFI partition on the drive to boot linux from.
Should work, provided you can access the bios to choose it as the boot device. The usual issues with this are: 1. It’s a school / work PC and BIOS access is locked 2. It has weird hardware and you can’t get network access working to sort it.
1 is common. 2 isnt common any more.
Make a live boot usb and try it and see.
It is possible with a little bit of work, you will have to set up grub to boot the SSD drive, there are a few how tos depending on your setup
