I’ll do everything in my power to not reinstall. I’ve put so much work into this install and I don’t want to redo it all. These two motherboards are essentially identical. Same company, same socket, same everything. I’m only getting pcie 4.0 on the new one and an extra slot for a second NVME. The new cpu is the same. Going from R7 5700G to R7 5800xt
I'm not too worried about the architecture more than I am about the boot partitions getting messed up. Will see. I'll actually post about it here when it's all done.
I've never used the iGPU on my old CPU. I just never needed it. And yes, I purposefully bought the same CPU generation and the same socket and manufacturer mobo, JUST to avoid this type of issue. Also, I don't see the need to spend double the money if AM4 and 5th Gen AMD has been working fantastically for me.
There is a small chance you'll have to change your fstab depending on how it's configured; if it's done by drive UUID, it won't be a problem.
This is the part that worries me the most. I don't know much about this whole UUID stuff (I'll learn of course). I HAVE moved ssds between machines before without an issue, but that was all Linux. This time it's a dualboot
I have before move SSDs and had no issues actually, now that you mentioned it. Lol. But this is a different case because I dualboot and I'm technically moving two OSs to a new mobo.
Some people keep saying that efi boots are written somewhere in an NVRAM on the motherboard and changing it will require rewriting the partition back on the new mobo. I honestly couldn’t care less if I lost the windows partition (it’s just a “just in case I need windows thing), but it’s the Cachy os install is what I’m worried most about. I’ve had this same install for over a year now and it has a ton of stuff I like. I do have a full dejadup back up on another drive, but still a reinstall would be painful. Here is to hoping it’s not that bad.
Like you said, they’re extremely similar (I actually made sure of that). Same socket, same brand and same cpus technology and generation.
Man, if it is as easy as just installing grub, then I’m golden. cachy-chroot will take care of that