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F2FS Filesystem Option in Neon Installer For 18.04

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Xendi
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It's been a few years since I first came onto this forum and asked about this. My question was if it were possible to get the installer (I don't recall the name of the installer Neon uses) to provide/allow Samsung's f2fs formatting of the system drive during system installation. Linux kernel has supported f2fs for several few years now and I feel that given its good benchmarks when pit against other filesystems, it's time. Just about everyone who purchase a new computer these days has their OS running on m.2 or u.2 drives, which f2fs was more than less made for.

I'd also like to point out that adding this to the installer would likely garner KDE Neon a fair amount of press, depending on how common f2fs in Linux installers now is. I'm not certain if that's the case as I've been running Neon almost exclusively all this time. It does seem appropriate as well, that this would be done in your LTS upgrade. If this feature request can be fulfilled relatively trivially, I'd be an overtly happy Neon user. If not, I'll ask again in another few years.

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At the moment, it uses Ubuntu's installer, so they would be the ones to implement it, I'd think.
Also, as it is not Plasma-related, I would also imagine it is a bit out of the scope of KDE Neon, to be honest.


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User Edition uses Ubiquity but Dev Unstable uses Calamares. Calamares is way superior to Ubiquity which is kinda stuck in the pre-efi times. It would be advantageous for Neon to switch to Calamares as soon as possible. ;D Cheers.


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Calamares looks really great!


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