> Well, could once. Probably not any more: Apple backed away from ZFS about 15 years ago or so. No, you still can! Booting from it isn't a mainstream use case

> Well, could once. Probably not any more: Apple backed away from ZFS about 15 years ago or so. No, you still can! Booting from it isn't a mainstream use case for it, but a port of ZFS to macOS is still alive today. Project website: https://openzfsonosx.org/ https://openzfsonosx.org/ Instructions for using it for /: https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/ZFS_on_Boot https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/ZFS_on_Boot It installs and creates filesystems just fine. The only part I haven't successfully tested myself within the last year or two is actually booting from it. > I have sympathy for the "servers as cattle" approach, but then again, the Linux world is in danger of forgetting where it comes from: from enthusiasts having fun. From people hacking around, learning, exploring, for a laugh, partly because it's free. One thing I believe deeply is that no one ever really masters the Unix environment without living in it. Without a solid foundation of interactive use, programming with the shell as your REPL, puttering around your filesystem with `cd`, you'll never properly learn your way around. 'Learning Linux' in a 'cloud-native' context tends to mean being alienated from all of that, and I think it profoundly hampers the development of fluency and comfort with the system. To get that from a box (server or desktop), it has to be a home to you, and homes aren't disposable (the Impermanence framework for NixOS aside). I do think NixOS has a place there, in keeping computing fun and exciting. For me, it was the first truly interesting distro (at least among those I'd consider usable/practical for me) in a long time. (This was back in 2015 or so.) I was a desktop Linux hobbyist before I took up any devops-related work, and for several years, NixOS singlehandedly breathed new life into that hobby for me. As far as I can tell, this is not an uncommon reaction to NixOS among enthusiasts, if not among casual Linux users.