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The original was posted on /r/nixos by /u/niksingh710 on 2024-09-30 11:25:06+00:00.

Just wrapped up setting up impermanence with LUKS and Btrfs. Man, setting it up on a non-encrypted device, and then migrating it to an encrypted one via a systemd script—what a rabbit hole of searching and learning that was.

Now that I know how it works, it all makes sense, but since last night, my whole perception of using the system has changed dramatically.

I didn’t go with tmpfs because I wanted some kind of backup. A buddy from the Nix Discord channel, iynaix, helped a lot (he’s a tmpfs addict), but I wanted some stuff to be backed up.

Share your experience when you were like, ‘Why the hell is it like this?’ but then, after figuring it out, you were like, ‘Ohhh, now it actually makes sense.’