It’s a cult.

Everything is flawed, there is no silver bullet. But again, it’s still a massive improvement over what we had previously.

Well, that’s the neat part. We don’t need to do that because what Flatpak does, doesn’t matter for them. People can just install Flatpak in their system and they have access to everything. I realise for system components it’s a different story, but that’s not the use case, it’s for applications.

Edit: typo.

And universal compatability. One repo, for all distros. That’s a big plus too!

Amen. I remember having to frequently reinstall the system to keep it performant. Thanks windows rot.

Different tools, different jobs. On my computer I also use btrfs, but on the family archive server ZFS (TrueNAS Scale). Right tool for the right job.

Snapshots like btrfs, yes. But I think every copy-on-write system can do that. But I don’t know about the rest.

The two biggest benefits are that it’s basically a finished implementation of btrfs (see data corruption in large pools and raid 5 and 6), as well as being able to encrypt and compress at the same time.

Plus, and I don’t know if this is a ZFS-specific thing, being able to group disks into VDevs and not just into one big raid.

Oh dear, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info. I genuinely wish that people would stop using these pushover licenses. I thought it was like the LGPL, but sadly it isn’t. At least the base remains free though.

How so?

But we have OpenZFS, which is under CDDL (=LGPL). So it’s fine.

Edit: I was wrong, see comment below.

ZFS: 🙂

Most of all, since I switched to GNU/Linux, I didn’t need to reinstall my system every single year to keep it performant, so after the first year it already felt stale!