egpu-switcher VS openzfs-docs

If you're ok with running X11, you can use egpu-switcher and modify the Xorg configuration yourself afterwards.

Only using Xorg since Wayland gave me more issues than fixes. I'm using egpu-switcher

Try installing eGPU-switcher, make sure you have the right drivers installed, and as others have said make sure you have the right cable. Last thing, only plug in or unplug the eGPU when the laptop is off.

You didn't mention the problems you ran into but it should be plug and play. You will have to set up the proper config for it to work properly, and I would recommend using hertg's egpu-switcher if you are having issues: https://github.com/hertg/egpu-switcher

I've been using egpu-switcher every single time.

The scripts are all-ways-egpu for Wayland and egpu-switcher for X11.

here is the hotplug script that seemed promising, but did not work for me (nVIDIA only) here is a more sophisticated-looking script that seems intended for Desktop-users though, and also specifically excludes hotplugging options...

It is not plug&play, but almost. https://github.com/hertg/egpu-switcher

The A750 is now a recognized PCIe device, and works with connected displays to an extent. During boot, KMS/Plymouth shows on connected displays, as well as GDM (albeit, laggy, but it did that before anyways). The problem starts with Xorg, where during startx, I get a No screens found error. My Xorg configuration was autogenerated by egpu-switcher, where it only fails in egpu mode (connected displays do not work in internal mode). GNOME on Wayland works surprisingly with my laptop display working as normal, but the eGPU's external displays come with various graphical glitches, stuttering, outputting to 1080i30 on a 1440p60 display, etc.

12 Feb 2024, https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Encrypt-Corrupt and https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/issues/494

> A new ticket has been opened for OpenZFS as well in proposing to add warnings against using ZFS native encryption and the send/receive support in production environments.

  "Among experienced zfs users and developers, it's conventional wisdom that zfs native encryption is not suitable for production usage, particularly when combined with snapshotting and zfs send/recv. There is a long standing data corruption issue with many firsthand user reports...Additionally, if you join #zfs or #zfsonlinux on freenode and mention that you're having an issue with zfs native encryption, you'll be met with advice from developers that zfs native encryption is simply not reliable."

I'm a little sad to see this. I've been using ZFS on my PCs for years with minimal issue and significant benefits. [1] I've even contributed [2]. And I remain a huge fan.

I don't believe that "everyone is just guessing". There are some pretty knowledgeable folk that work on this.

[1] I've triggered some corruption in snapshots on an encrypted pool. No permanent problems resulted and no data was lost.

[2] I provided a very minor documentation fix that was encouraged and promptly merged. https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/pull/472

- Don't give up to early and switch distro, if something does not work - try to do your research first and then stick to your choice

For everyone who's interested, I ended up using Artix Linux (Arch, no systemd) with encrypted ZFS on boot and KDE as desktop environment, and I'm pretty happy so far. Resources I recommend are:

https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/blob/91d28894a74a19f...

Just bricked my trusty EliteBook 820 G3 while testing Secure Boot.

This is the closest I've found: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/pull/21