For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).

Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    3·
    3 months ago

    I dont see the difference to BTRFS apart from encryption and maybe caching? I was always confused why people hype it so much.

    Interesting, yes I wouldnt not use LUKS if the alternative is less known, not used by enterprise distros

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      3·
      3 months ago

      The tiered storage stuff is pretty cool. You can say “I want this data on this disk, so if I get a cache miss from a faster disk/RAM it’ll come from this other disk first.”

      I believe it also has some interesting ways of handling redundancy like erasure coding, and I thiiiink it does some kind of byte-level deduplication? I don’t know if that’s implemented or is even still planned, but I remember being quite excited for it. It was supposed to be dedupe without all of the hideous drawbacks that things like ZFS dedupe have.

      EDIT: deduplication is absolutely not a thing yet. I don’t know if it’s still on the roadmap.

      EDIT: Erasure coding is deffo implemented, however.