I am somewhat new to Linux. I am playing around with a couple of things in learning how it works. In order to help isolate any possible bugs, I wanted to establish a throughline to possible errors and solutions now.

I have some m.2 PCIe SSD (Hard Drives, Solid State Drives).

I have a USB external m.2 enclosure to mount them in and plug them into my PC via USB 3.0 connection.

If I choose to install Linux to this external enclosure, and then later after it is configured appropriately, will it go from external enclosure into another identically configured PC without problem? Is there going to be data on the hard drive that is going to indicate to itself that it is a USB mounted hard drive, or will it have no problem being recognized by Linux that it is the hard drive that "always was mouuonted inside of the computer?"

I am drawing a blank by the way Linux arranges drives, and how it records this data.

If I have two USB Drives plugged into m computer, it will give a path of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb between the two. If I interchange them, likewise, each one's location changes.

is anything going to remain static on the m.2 drive that is mounted inside of the USB enclosure to give confusion to the Linux installation if I remove it from the USB Enclosure and later install it into the identical computer which it was running from the USB Drive?

THank you for your assistance and postulations.

Yes, I have done it the other way without problems, took a drive out of hp laptop, put into external usb enclosure hooked to asus laptop usb port and booted without issue so should work the other way. Most distros use uuid to identify partitions for booting purposes.

TIGHT!!! THanks for the response, Purple!!! I can't wait to try this and roll it out throughout the house.