In this blog post, I'm reviewing a NovaCustom NV41 laptop with many operating systems

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated in any way to any of the parties involved in this review. I just enjoy reading Solène’s writings in general and found myself to be especially in fond of this specific article. I share this in the hopes that others might somehow benefit from this as well!

The relevance of the review for this specific community would be that NovaCustom produces excellent laptops to be used with Linux (and other open source operating systems). Furthermore, in the review the reviewer installs a bunch of distros and tests how they work on the device.

  • Ramin HonaryEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago
    • Sorry, I think I might have confused OmniOS with QubesOS.
    • ZFS is itself a security feature because of how well it guarantees the fidelity of your data. That said, ZFS support on BSD is generally much better than on Linux
    • For the reasons you stated, I can’t use OpenBSD on my daily work laptop, so I don’t think I will ever really have a chance to give it a fair trial or learn more about it, which is unfortunate.
    • throwawayishOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      Sorry, I think I might have confused OmniOS with QubesOS.

      😅, but QubesOS isn’t a derivative of OpenBSD either. It might have inspired some of its parts, but fundamentally it’s a completely different beast.

      ZFS is itself a security feature because of how well it guarantees the fidelity of your data.

      Do you happen to know if this goes beyond what Btrfs(/Bcachefs) provides on the Linux side of things?

      • Ramin HonaryEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Do you happen to know if this goes beyond what Btrfs(/Bcachefs) provides on the Linux side of things?

        I think someday Btrfs or BCacheFS might have as many features as ZFS, but for now ZFS is still state-of-the-art, as far as I know. RAID-Z is one ZFS feature I use that is not fully implemented in Btrfs yet. All other ZFS features that I use are also available with Btrfs.

        😅, but QubesOS isn’t a derivative of OpenBSD either. It might have inspired some of its parts, but fundamentally it’s a completely different beast.

        Oops, I am really getting confused with all the different distros! Sorry!