Spark Town

So I am going back to NixOS, for the simple reason that I can finally complete the project I started when I got my new computer.

You see, my computer has 4 drive slots. 2 Nvme and 2 SATA ones. RIght now I am currently using 3 slots, 2 Nvme and 1 SATA, but I recently bought a new SATA drive.

NixOS makes it easy to use ZFS, which has an ability to easily mirror drives. So, I will create 2 encrypted zpools on it, with both mirroring a drive each.

Bazzite/Aurora/Bluefin has no such ability currently to do advance RAID 1 style things, unfortunately, and if it did, it would require messing with an expert partitioner in the installer GUI, and believe me, I’ve tried to do it. Aurora/Bluefin has built-in ZFS support, sure, but not ZFS on root. Only BTRFS on root, and you can only do RAID 0 style setups with it, which isn’t to my liking at all.

I think OpenSUSE might support advance partitiong, even with it’s immutable distros, but I still like how Bazzite and co have their installer setup more.

Next post I will detail how to setup everything like I have, and my ideal laptop setup for NixOS as well.

Sadly, for me, Bazzite and co have run their course, because not only do I want an advanced BTRFS setup on my laptops(For hibernation and sleep), but also controllable snapper BTRFS snapshot adjustments, and the ability to have the mesh networking setup of my choice.

Right now I choose to have both Nebula and Tailscale as my mesh networks, and you can only have Tailscale if you choose Bazzite and co!

Anyways, that’s all for today!

VF5 Revo is out now, and it rocks! Working on learning Brad Burns, a Muay Thai fighter! Hope to get some matches in with real people!

Fedora.

Everyone in Linux knows about the Fedora distribution. Some hate it, some love it. In any case, it has significant backing, largely due to it being a huge corporation, which is Red Hat.

One day Red Hat decided that it needed more reliability in it’s servers, so thus was born Fedora Atomic.

Fedora Atomic was pretty nice, and it has worked out to good degree, as it became an official distribution later on.

This gave way to Atomic desktops. The first 2 were GNOME and KDE.

Since Fedora gives out it’s source code, it’s “relatively” easy to alter it how you want it.

Enter Bazzite, a atomic desktop centered on gaming.

My personal opinion on Bazzite is that it is excellent, especially for Linux beginners. Also, it makes gaming on Linux a breeze.

Sure, you can’t do significant customization with it unless you really work at it, but other than that, for a basic plug-and-play type system, you can’t go wrong!

In conclusion, I’d rate it 9/10. More to come as I expand this article!