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Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Encrypted ZFS Installation Walkthrough

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Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

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ZFSBootMenu (zfsbootmenu) has replaced zsys!!!
— zsys has been deprecated for a while, zfsbootmenu is the much more powerful, more useful alternative. It also leads to a simpler & cleaner installation, and adds a boot menu with some features similar to those in the freebsd boot-environment
ZFS Native Encryption
ZFS & ZSTD Inline Filesystem Compression
(an experience free from the tortures of snapd)
Root on ZFS Mirror
Latest Gnome Desktop, Gnome Tweaks, & Gnome Shell Extension Manager
flatpak — Steam Launcher, Moonlight Game Streaming, Barrier softKVM
UFW firewall setup for ssh and wireguard
Latest Linux Kernel
Latest openZFS
nVidia and AMD graphics
Refind & zfsbootmenu finish the installation with a beautiful, absurdly powerful, highly configurable machine even before the OS has started

test system = ‘rosalind’

AMD FX-9370 w/ 32GB DDR3
RX580 8GB, GT1030 2GB, HD6770 1GB
1x Samsung NVME…

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