I agree with your overall point. That said: ZFS on Debian is pretty painless. If you have to build/link the kernel, apt will do it all for you, so you don't ha

I agree with your overall point. That said: ZFS on Debian is pretty painless. If you have to build/link the kernel, apt will do it all for you, so you don't have to do anything. ZFS on NixOS is usually quite easy as well, even on / : https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/ZFS https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/ZFS