Is FreeBSD still the only place to get ZFS right out of the box? The only other option I can think of is the moribund OpenIndiana, surprisingly still not dead. I recently tried it on an old Lenovo Ideapad from around 2009. More or less everything worked, but there were very few packages. It was nothing like the wild bazaar of ports or AUR (Arch User Repository).
I can't believe it has been now many years since FreeBSD got ZFS and there is still nothing comparable on most common OSes. FreeBSD continues to look better and better, mostly through the sustained thoughtlessness and outright silliness of other systems.
I was particularly disappointed that Apple created a whole new filesystem to replace HFS+ and
data integrity checks and self-healing were not even on the agenda. I wonder about BTRFS. Nobody seems to want to use BTRFS, other than --shambolic even by Linux distro standarts--OpenSuSE.
Recent stagnation seems kind of ominous to me, but then I remember 1985-1995, when desktops went from 8-bit microcomputers to Windows 95 PCs. Sad that such change doesn't continue: from 2010 to 2020 desktop PCs (and trashy phones) have only undergone incremental, "next year's model will be thinner and
have fins!" type changes; most stuff from 2010 that is still alive is usable but slow on today's java cesspool.
I guess people really do not care to know whether their data gets corrupted, nevermind being able to easily duplicate it (zfs send) or being able to easily get it back. I don't know who John Galt is, but I hope he's got the plans for that motor of his stored on ZFS.