Subj : Re: one hand
To   : esc
From : apam
Date : Sat Oct 08 2022 19:24:24

 > Gotcha. There was recently an issue with Grub that was preventing
 > people from booting ... this was hairy. I use systemd-boot so for me
 > it wasn't an issue but things like that are fairly scary if you need
 > your computer every day lol.

I think I heard that somewhere. the thing for me with the grub2 vs grub
boils down to scripts I wrote on debian to create VM images of my OS, so
I could quickly test it. (My OS uses grub to boot, it's uses a multiboot
kernel which is one grub supports) it wouldn't be too hard to check for
grub2 vs grub binaries, and I did write a script to do that, but it
messed up my grub theme for my OS, it just was stuffing around I didn't
want to do :P

 > I still use ext4. ZFS is excellent, though. It needs better first
 > class support in the linux kernel. 

I do on linux too. I noticed red hat clones seem to default to XFS when
you don't chose BTRFS, but still select ext4. I don't think ZFS will make
it anytime into linux due to licensing, and I expect they would rather
focus on BTRFS than re-implementing ZFS.

 > Yeah, I have systemd-homed/homectl on my personal laptop but just out
 > of curiosity. From an administrative perspective, I actually think
 > it's brilliant - true roaming accounts in a business or school when
 > using linux workstations. But for most people it's unnecessary.

I'm sure it is useful in some instances, I think the thing that I was
worried about at the time that it was going to be adopted in distros and
forced on me. I can't remember exactly why I didn't want it.

 > Actually if you get bored some time, spin up a vm with a new arch
 > install iso and try the 'archinstall' script. It seems to do a lot of
 > things well, other than an issue I ran into with the fstab.

I'll have to do that.

Andrew

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