@linear interesting, because zfs would solve encryption by itself, which is one less thing to go hurrendously wrong. i personally would prefer this. at the minute i have to use ext4 to boot alpine which then pivots to a zfs root once i've unlocked the disk.
@linear (i'm also looking from the perspective of distro maintainer in the style we discussed - what does it make sense to try and improve? my first inkling is the installer could be so much easier. on a desktop you don't typically want e.g. serial console only or any of the other things that it's cool it can support but are kinda niche interest for deskop)
@linear when i try to use wlanctl -a to list wireless networks , i get an error about sysctlnametomib being an unfound file or directory. i can only find a function named that. is there a script too? what package is it in?
@linear so one thing is i can only see the pci device listed in dmesg, there's no interface device using it afaict. so i did wonder if it was failing to find the device or something
@linear no, it isn't. it's an RTL8821CE apparently