Is there anything wrong with taking my ssd with mint out of my desktop and slapping it in an old laptop? I actually tried it and it seems to have booted up perfectly. How does it know what drivers to use automatically? Its pretty sweet that it works this easily.
It usually works fine. If later you find something isn’t working, you can just install what you need. I’ve done this several times and had it just work, even on machines with very different hardware.