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!
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