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Let's see.. Software I am thankful for.. there is a fair amount of such.

Anki - Software, that helped me build up habit, and made learning language an easier task

Emacs - Wonderful text editor, made interacting with system a bliss.

Nix/NixOS - Distro, that made updates a painless, and fearless task. I love it.

ZFS - Filesystem that I love, for it has many wonderful features, and they all just work. (Also cute compression)

Wine + DXVK/VKD3D - Thanks to this, I was able to completely drop windows partition, and go full Linux.

LaTeX - Thanks to it, I could have cute workflow for writing documents (And yesterday, wrote CV with its' help :D)

Calibre - Man.. what a behemot of book software. Makes anything ebook related painless

Common Lisp(SBCL) and Haskell(GHC) - Very interesting languages, with very wonderful features. I love them both.

Cool retro term - For playing roguelikes, lets me experience them in very retro, retro way.

Obviously, ublock origin, makes browsing web not a nightmare.

Aseprite - wonderful pixelart software.

There is more, but... I will stop there, to make the comment.. not too long.

This was better and more thought out than the OP's blog post.

Curious to learn, what are the differentiators of ZFS? File system seems like an invisible layer to me personally which makes me ask this question.

Well, ZFS way of managing disks is really comfy to me, and, The way datasets and snapshots work, let me have really space efficient game modding.

I wrote a bit more about this on my extremely simple blog

https://sleepycatgirl.github.io/html/zfs.html

Interesting read, thanks

zero-copy snapshots, end-to-end validation of writes and checksummable data integrity, built-in logical/physical device management, and a very intelligent caching layer that uses spare RAM to handle MRU/MFU for both filesystem metadata and the data itself.

Along with a track record of being generally reliable and stable, under intense commercial workloads.

Yeah... While I don't make use of some things (Like, I only have 1HDD, 1SDD (I do plan to change that once I will be building new PC though), so no RAID-Z for me, still, the way datasets work, made things painless (I mean, I can finally have separate / partition by simply making dataset, but not waste space from having separate partition with conventional filesystem, and this just works)) but still, on the desktop, it is a very pleasant experience. Though, there is still a lot for me to learn about ZFS (Stuff like L2ARC, SLOG and such) but that is fine, those things will come with time =w=

Snapshots and device pools are my favorites. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Features

I use snapshots for personal backups, but on BTFS, and it's amazingly simple. 2 LOC: Rsync home to drive and make snapshot.

is BTFS production ready? as in, is it stable these days?

BTRFS has been stable for a while, except for RAID 5/6. However you can use RAID 1 for all intents as RAID 1 provides essentially RAID 5/6 and is much more flexible.

With BTRFS RAID 1 you can set the number of drives, and the number of duplicate data, and can use mixed sized drives. Due to this, I would recommend RAID 1 over RAID 5/6 anyway even if RAID 5/6 was fine.

I am using it for years and ceased to run into problems about 3 years ago. Production ready as in building a business on it. I would not. Storing your personal important stuff (and have backups in place): yes. Unimportant personal stuff: also very much yes.

Thanks a lot for mentioning Anki! I was not aware of its existence, but it's exactly what I needed for myself and my children!

Yeah, anki is one wonderful piece of software, and it is open source :D Also, I have a bit of advice regarding studying, learning in general: If you struggle to start things, because there is so much to learn and such, start small. Like, If you keep doing even 5 minutes a day, it will be much easier to increase the time (I started this way, and nowadays I can pull off over hour easily) rather than try to do a lot at first

But then again, it might not apply to you, it.. honestly depends on person...

I agree. At the moment I am studying a new language and am following one of the guides produced by Assimil [1]. Their method is exactly what you are suggesting, and I verified its effectiveness when I learned from scratch a new language in 3 months.

[1] https://www.assimil.com/en/

As many people have pointed out before about learning languages, it's best to learn in sentences as soon as you can.

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