Linux works with general drivers. 

I have taken out my hard disc from broken systems almost 10 times now and inserted the old hard disc into a brand new system and it just works (tm). 

All you have to take into account that if your switch videocard brand (from NVidia to AMD or from AMD to Nvidia) is to remove the restricted driver if you have that installed (ie. in general you need to remove all 3rd party drivers you installed for hardware that does not come with the new system). 

Try it. I believe you will be amazed at how easy it is to do this. You will not even have to re-install the OS; just pop the hard into the new system.



I would advice to not buy a motherboard that uses UEFI (if possible). It might work as I posted above here by turning UEFI off but there is no guarantee. Due to the nature of this piece of ... it might fail since the hardware changed and a re-install might be obligatory.

Will existing Ubuntu installation still work on this new hardware?
Which is the best introductory textbook for Bayesian statistics?

One book per answer, please.
