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I'm curious: What's motivating you to do that when the memmap param can do the same without patching?

While you can put your root filesystem on ZFS and many people do it, it is considered a little more advanced setup and it's more common to run ext4 on / and then zfs for mounted datasets on e.g. /var and /home.

A catch with ZFS is that it does not have a compatible license with Linux, which prevents many distros from shipping compiled modules directly. So the most common way to ship it is by DKMS, which (automatically) compiles the ZFS module from source. This is done by installing the zfs-dkms package.

The ZFS version obviously needs to be compatible with your kernel and sometimes it can take a while for ZFS to Linux. Arch does not coordinate releases so especially if you're not on the LTS kernel, you can run into situations where ZFS is no longer available after an upgrade. Furthermore, zfs-dkms is not in Arch repos but in AUR so you have to build even that from source for each upgrade of ZFS. Not recommended for beginners.

That a partial or failed system upgrade can leave you in a place without ZFS modules is one reason why putting / on ZFS is not more common.

In debian, you just apt-get install zfs-dkms.

Alpine Linux maintainers decided to just ignore the license issue and ship a compiled zfs package including kernel modules.

I don't believe Ventoy is safe. Too much dodgy stuff.

https://feddit.online/post/605807#post_replies

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/509282

https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112906968594601449

Debian ships official live images with desktop environments (KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, GNOME and MATE).

https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

You could try each and see which one you like.

There is also LMDE, Linux Mint Debian Edition. It's not bad.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

No joke. It feels like I'm constantly catching up with Fedora. And I am a person who finds system upgrades recreational. It is not a good pick for OP.

Given your requirements, absolutely I'd also recommend against Bazzite and CachyOS, at least today.

Debian stable. Enable security updates by unattended-upgrades and you can basically go over a year without manually updating (aside from the occasional reboot to activate the newer kernel).

Then if you're not already into containers, I propose learning about rootless Podman and using that to run your arr stack services. For example using docker-compose and/or systemd services.

If you don't mind going a little bit more of the beaten track, then I also encourage you to check out Alpine Linux. Their wiki explains how to install it with a read-only root filesystem which it sounds like you'd like. But since it's early and a commitment, maybe save this adventure for later.

Arch has a like 10x more update churn than Debian or sth and is not stable in the same sense.

For a more hands-on system, or something offline, Arch is still great.

Good question and without looking closer or verifying I'd guess it actually doesn't.

Usually such things happen because at some point someone had an issue with accessing a hardware device or something and this became the "fix" perhaps because udev was confusing.

If someone cares enough about it, tidying up loose flatpak packaging ends like that is often appreciated and a great way to contribute.

Rule of thumb for OpenWRT:

In general for consumer routers, Broadcom-based ones like the one posted require a lot of work and hacking to port and maintain. If they’re even working with OpenWRT at all it can be quite dicey and troblesome if you are not very lucky.

In comparison, Mediatek-based models tend to be better supported and smoother sailing.

I haven’t seen much of Qualcomm but I’d guess they fall somewhere closer to Broadcom.

So no, I don’t think it’s a good pick. If OP got it handed down for free it might be worth a shot but I would buy something else if the purpose is to run OpenWRT or any Linux or BSD on it.

Source: Installed OpenWRT on many different devices over the years, including one with the same chipset

Now if we could just sort the jf collections type in ways other than by date ;)

Sounds like Good First Issue material! (;

ruh-roh

Is the Flatpak version running inside it’s own “box” and it isn’t getting SU permissions across my whole system?

Indeed it is running sandboxed!

Same principle as running uid 0 inside a rootless container.

You can poke around a shell inside the sandboxed environment with flatpak run --command=bash org.freecad.FreeCAD and tweak access with FlatSeal.