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  • Well that’s good to know because I had some terrible luck with it about a decade ago. Although I don’t think I would go back to windows, I just don’t need it for work anymore and it’s become far too complex.

    I’ve also had pretty bad luck with BTRFS though, although it seems to have improved a lot in the past 3 years that I’ve been using it.

    ZFS would be good but having to rebuild the kernel module is a pain in the ass because when it fails to build you’re unbootable (on root). I also don’t like how clones are dependant on parents, requires a lot of forethought when you’re trying to create a reproducible build on eg Gentoo.


  • I gotcha:

    • Btrfs
      • BTree File System
        • A Copy on White file system that supports snapshots, supported mostly by
    • ZFS
      • Zetabyte File System
        • Copy on Write File System. Less flexible than BTRFS but generally more robust and stable. Better compression in my experience than BTRFS. Out of Kernel Linux support and native FreeBSD.
    • HFS+
      • what Mac uses, I have no clue about this. some Copy on Write stuff.
    • NTFS
      • Windows File System
      • From what I know, no compression or COW
      • In my experience less stable than ext4/ZFS but maybe it’s better nowadays.















  • It’s not too bad. I very rarely recompile everything from scratch and after I do that I just create a snapshot with btrfs. Are usually then chroot into that snapshot and compile everything natively overnight for that 5% Theoretical performance boost.

    Most recently I took that snapshot and then used btrfs send to adapt it to a laptop as well and that worked quite well actually.

    Everything I install is typically through flatpack or distro box just like silver blue. This means install times are pretty much okay but I have a huge amount of flexibility in the way the system works

    Also heaps of binary packages as well, so that’s not too bad. The binary packages much slower than both arch and Alpine but not a lot slower than for example Fedora.