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My laptop (~99% work only) setup is ZFS root + Gentoo on XPS15: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_15_9560 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_15_9560 ...

My laptop (~99% work only) setup is ZFS root + Gentoo on XPS15: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_15_9560 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_15_9560 ... but switched from Mac (vs. Windows) after yet another stupid hardware error and Apple quoting more than the price of the thing to fix it. Haven't used Windows personally in over a decade. Manage to game a bit, but in general don't have time anymore. However, just specced a couple of Ryzen workstations at work, and they will run Windows. More expensive than I expected. I don't built machines that often anymore. Since when did you need 700W of power and a dedicated graphics card because CPU doesn't support built-in graphics chip? This is truly a new world. :)

Synaesthesia 8y ago
Try hackintosh. And people tend to recommend way overspecced power supplies.
- contingencies 8y ago
  No time for hackintosh. It's not that people recommend, 450W wouldn't get an image. Had to chuck it out and upgrade. That's hardware today!
Leace 8y ago
Why ZFS instead of btrfs (asking out of curiosity as I'm pondering the issue myself)?
- contingencies 8y ago
  More familiar personally. I think its been stable longer and has more features, but btrfs may have caught up these days.
  - Leace 8y ago
    Thanks for your explanation. If only ZFS was GPL licensed btrfs would probably never exist. I was very much interested in ZFS and invested a lot to learn the internals but the out-of-tree status of it and the fact that btrfs gets better and better with every kernel release probably means that btrfs will get ahead of ZFS some time in the future. (that's just my observation) FWIW it seems anecdotal evidence [0] shows that btrfs is stable for daily use (just don't use RAID 5/6 [1]). [0]: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1055883-btrfs-to-ship-multiple-performance-improvements-in-the-next-linux-kernel?p=1055926#post1055926 https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux... [1]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status#Overview https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status#Overview

Synaesthesia 8y ago

Try hackintosh. And people tend to recommend way overspecced power supplies.

contingencies 8y ago
No time for hackintosh. It's not that people recommend, 450W wouldn't get an image. Had to chuck it out and upgrade. That's hardware today!

Leace 8y ago

Why ZFS instead of btrfs (asking out of curiosity as I'm pondering the issue myself)?

contingencies 8y ago
More familiar personally. I think its been stable longer and has more features, but btrfs may have caught up these days.
- Leace 8y ago
  Thanks for your explanation. If only ZFS was GPL licensed btrfs would probably never exist. I was very much interested in ZFS and invested a lot to learn the internals but the out-of-tree status of it and the fact that btrfs gets better and better with every kernel release probably means that btrfs will get ahead of ZFS some time in the future. (that's just my observation) FWIW it seems anecdotal evidence [0] shows that btrfs is stable for daily use (just don't use RAID 5/6 [1]). [0]: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1055883-btrfs-to-ship-multiple-performance-improvements-in-the-next-linux-kernel?p=1055926#post1055926 https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux... [1]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status#Overview https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status#Overview