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It’s actually quite useful for laptops.

Checksums if the mobile hardware is damaged, snapshots if you delete something in your daily driver, native encryption if laptop is stolen, backup of work data via ZFS send if you have a ZFS server, compression to use limited disk space in laptops, errors can be fixed with copies=2, etc.




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