Post #4357563

2026-08-02 00:27 UTC

I have recently taken a hard look at migrating away from my Lenovo i7 Win11 laptop to a #macbook Pro for my main productivity workhorse. While there are some great reasons to stick with My ASUS i9 laptop (gaming), there are at least for me some very compelling reasons to shift to a Mac for my daily driver. Having said that, one of the main reasons I haven’t made the switch involves my apprehension over how a potential migration of my #obsidian environment will shake out. I do use Obsidian Sync, so in theory the data should be taken care of but I use a commerally available system of customizations that I would hate to have to reconfigure from scratch. As it is, a simple host to host transfer of my Obsidian environment scares me, but cross-platform and potential additional complexity adds hesitancy. Bawk bawk. <- me

Replies (4)

@muddylaces@mstdn.ca 2026-08-03 14:56

@clankgy1@infosec.exchange Your Obsidian Vault is just a folder of file. Copy it to a thumb drive from the Win machine, then copy it to the Mac. Install Obsidian on the Mac, then open the vault.

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@leerayl@infosec.exchange 2026-08-02 01:16

@clankgy1@infosec.exchange I would sync your folder and take a look. Yesterday I was trying to export as PDF on windows and it didn’t have my settings from my Mac or Linux. Overall plugins seem to be the weirdest issues and deep links to files

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@htugboat@mastodon.social 2026-08-02 02:33

@clankgy1@infosec.exchange I run my vault on both Ubuntu and a MBP without any issue, through Obsidian Sync. Plugins and all.

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@dhry@mastodon.social 2026-08-02 17:40

@clankgy1@infosec.exchange Can't recommend Mac highly enough. I've been a Windows nerd for decades. Mac does pretty much everything, but with far less wattage used. I don't game but I do do a crapload of photographer workflow and video transcoding and my 18C/40G MBP is exceedingly good at all. Also, Obsidian works flawlessly across both platforms. Nothing to reconfigure. Nothing to worry about at all.

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