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yet to access zfs external hard disk from Linux

I had Ubuntu installed on a 256 GB spinning harddisk with zfs file system, in 2021. For a vague reason, I had to give that laptop to my close friend's office Admin. He removed this Hard disk and since then, I'm struggling to Open that zfs harddisk.. A for Arch to Z for Zorin. None, I could..

Manjaro KDE Plasma

 Plasma is good,  Dolphin FIle Browser & Kate Text Editor is good  But takes wee bit longer for Firefox to load and get ready to accept key strokes.   So, It will be XFCE 4.20 for me (i3 & Hyprland !!)     I hope the broken Arch Packages Sob Story of Oct to Dec 2026 will not haunt me.   I just could not install both VLC Player and Google Chrome on Manjaro between Oct to Dec 2025... I had screwed up LC trying to make it run video's from thunar root/other partitions....    The pain of installing VLC drove me to test Omarchy, Debian, Xubuntu.....   Well....  single boot Manjaro with KDE Plasma .... somehow, Plasma on 4 GB RAM + Intel i3  Processor is pretty slow compared to xfce.. Update:  February 15... I couldn't stand kde plasma.. overwrote kde plasma with Fresh install of Manjaro xfce