I use Debian at home, with separate boot, /, and /home/ partitions. I have no idea what type of cheap memory is stuffed into the motherboard - it's certainly not homogeneous. I do prioritise resiliency over speed, or even space.
Still something I should look into? Thank you!
The servers I use ZFS on are Debian, so it’s well supported in that way. I’m pretty sure ZFS on Debian uses dkms, so if you want to try it on a data partition, it will work.
Still, unless you want to tinker with something new I can’t really recommend it. Would it work? Yes. Do you need it? No. You’re probably fine with whatever FS you currently have running. ZFS works on Debian, but it’s not first-party support (due to licensing). Do I think you’d have issues if you wanted to try it? Probably not. I’m just conservative in what I’d recommended for a daily use machine. I prioritize working over everything else, so I’d hate for you to try it and end up with a non working system.
Here’s what I’d recommend instead - try it in a VM first. See if you can get it to work in a system setup like yours. See if it’s something that you like. If you want to use it on your primary machine, then you’ll be able to make a more informed decision.
I use ZFS on both my desktop and laptop each with Linux (in addition to a server, also running ZFS, but on FreeBSD). It's actually really not terribly hard, but I might be biased since I've been doing since it 2011 :)
If you can/are willing to use UEFI, ZFSBootMenu is a Linux oriented solution that replicates the power of FreeBSD's bootloader, so you can manage snapshots and boot environments and rollback checkpoints all at boot without having to use recovery media (that used to be required when doing ZFS on Linux). Definitely worth looking into: https://zfsbootmenu.org/