This. I use Arch myself so to my friends I just recommend one of the downstream distros. Might not be the most stable things ever but it’s just easier for me to help them.

There are some niche features, but if you’re not aware of them then no. It’s just licence encumbered btrfs for the majority of us.

Heck this looks like a great community. Thanks for the ref!

Native in what sense? As I understand it that uses a VM of some sort

Uptime: 29 seconds

Don’t worry about it, you’re not in a rush to do anything. How about getting a cup of tea for starters?

Didn’t look at the article but ya if you want to leverage SEDs then LUKS is the way to go.

What’s so wrong with fstab?