Recently got a laptop from a friend after mine got smashed to smithereens. I was going to do a fresh install of my favourite binary distro, Void Linux on it but I recently found out they dropped Monero (and Crypto programs) for ideological reasons.
I guess its time to come home!
Booted Laptop/PC to the LiveUSB, time to do my gruelling ZFS installs :)
I’ve had Void on my desktop for a few years as I didn’t think it could handle Gentoo, 2011 iMac with 4GB ram, I tried Gentoo again a few months back and have been delighted. Between the binary kernel, -bin packages in the main tree, experimental Gentoo binhost and Calculate Linux repos updating or installing new stuff with portage is pretty smooth.
I’ve been on lvm/luks/ext4 for a long time. zfs looked cool but I prefer to rely on mainline support, btrfs sounded promising and exciting but I don’t think they have done the encryption bit yet which, was the bit I was excited about from the start. I’m kinda hoping by the end of the year I can ditch ext4/lvm/luks on my desktop and just have bcachefs doing it all with mainline support.
It is, although my install is a bit funky. Efistub/zfsbootmenu wth native encryption - there’s a few extra steps :-) luckily I have it all written down!
I am more than happy to but I’m not sure if it’s an older version of what I had written up, I’m actually reinstalling on another laptop to test/re-write it and I’d be more than happy to share if it works :P
The paths are slightly different so I made two. Could probably merge it into one pretty easily but I can’t be bothered messing around with variables :)
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