ZFS

Recently I have begun migrating my workstation and laptop from Gentoo to NixOS. There are a great deal of tradeoffs between the two operating systems. Before going into the details, consider where I’m coming from and why I moved away from Gentoo below. Why was I running Gentoo on workstations?? This is my heuristic for a good operating system: The Distro must provide facility to modify system packages and maintain their modifications in sync with the upstream distro.

I have been looking for a simple ZFS encrypted root guide on the internet. It doesn’t seem to exist. I am putting emphasis on the word simple. I decided to sacrified my weekend and mental health to make it happen. Before attempting this, please read these links, so you have some idea about what you’re doing and are aware of the main steps needed to install NixOS manually. It looks scary, but luckily you can skip most of these steps with the tool, Disko.