Saving and/or Transferring Entire Desktop Panels?

[justme2]

I own a Cloning Drive Dock.  The only thing I'm wondering about with a totally cloned drive is whether it would work well if booted up on a totally different notebook computer?  I'm thinking it might be better to install Linux on that computer from scratch and then just copy over these panel folders.  That way the install will have potentially addressed any special hardware issues with the other notebook computer.

I've also found a way to "cheat" on Windows. (ha ha)

I've created a Linux system on a drive connected via USB.  Then I just set the BIOS up to boot on the USB first.  If I have the Linux drive plugged in when I turn the computer on it boots up in Linux.  If leave the Linux drive off-line then the computer boots up to the notebook hard drive with Windows.  So I've discovered I can have the best of both worlds without any major hassle.  ;D

That's the way I have run linux for years - on a class 10 SDHC card in a usb card reader, set to be the first boot device. (some older PCs won't boot from USB directly). As for hardware problems when plugged into different PCs, I have found none and the system has been used to demonstrate Linux Lite on numerous Windows PCs at a local U3A group. I believe windows becomes tied to the hardware after installing but linux detects the hardware each time it boots (dmesg output seems to indicate that). Anyway, my LL/USB/SDHC installation moves from machine to machine without problem. Try a cloned drive and see if it works!