Hi All,
Ok, I'm finally very close to being able to go to a full Linux environment and leave the Microsoft ecosystem. I'm semi-retired and still do some Microsoft Data Platform work (which was my career). I recently got a Dell Latitude and put Kubtunu 22.04 on it and managed to get all my applications, dev tools (many MS tools too!), and hardware working. I've been down this road before in years past and Linux on the desktop was always a "no-go" for me. So, I was *astonished* how easy it was to install Kubuntu and everything just worked. That's how it must feel to be a Mac person! :)
However, one of the hurdles with the Dell was that, by default, Dell configures the BIOS such that the boot drive (NVME in this case) is set to be in RAID mode instead of AHCI mode, even though there is only one drive in the system. This caused Ubuntu to simply not boot. After doing some research I came to find the Ubuntu doesn't support Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST), which RAID requires. It was a simple fix to reconfigure the BIOS into AHCI mode, since I was going to wipe the Windows partition anyway.
But, my main production dev box is Win 10 and I have two NVME drives in a RAID 0 (mirror) configuration (using hardware RAID in the BIOS). If I want to install Ubuntu I need to be able to implement this same level of RAID. If Ubuntu doesn't support the Intel RST hardware, how can I install Ubuntu and have a RAID 0 arrangement? I'm not looking for a particular answer to the problem just some suggestions on what to research. LVM? ZFS? Software RAID?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Peter
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