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> For what it's worth, it's easier to switch between Linux distributions than it is to switch from Windows to something else. That's understating it a bit. You
by Brakenshire 10y ago
> For what it's worth, it's easier to switch between Linux distributions than it is to switch from Windows to something else.
That's understating it a bit. You just sudo apt install one package, log out, and select the different DE. It's a 30 second job.
- pessimizer 10y agoThere's a huge difference between just switching your desktop and switching your entire distribution, but it's still easy. Just plow under the OS partition with something else.
- e12e 10y agoAnd this is actually one of the great things about zfs: you can now have a volume manager and filsystem that is fully portable across FreeBSD, (Open)Solaris and Linux. Keep /home on a zfs volume, and you can really mix things up. The only thing missing is solid cross os encryption - but for those that can live with some metadata being exposed, it looks like encryption is coming [ed: to open zfs]. I suppose one might even share home filsystems with OS X - but running OS X requires Apple hardware (and/or breaking the license and some hacks). [Ed: and sharing home filsystems across unix-like os' actually works: thanks to things like the Bourne shell and other software being available and using the same storage for preferences etc (typically text files) - Bsd even comes with an emulation layer to run Linux executables.]