Simple enough!

Ah I don’t know. I just read it was good practice.

I’m not sure.

I know timeshift can do both btrfs snapshots and rsync backups.

Snapper I think only does btrfs snapshots. (Correct me on this)

I don’t know if your know how btrfs works, but you can separate your partition into subvolumes. (For example for your /, home, var, …)

Timeshift and Snapper use different subvolume schemas and names.

Also, Snapper automatically puts a new entry in your grub menu for every snapshot created, which allows you to boot back into that state and restore it. Timeshift doesn’t have that feature. You have to install grub-btrfs or something and configure it accordingly.

Oh man. I figured it out.

I was watching the video and skipping to the partitioning part and never noticed he was going into “expert install”. 🤦‍♂️

That was my mistake. Fucking hell. I spent days on this lol!!!

Thank you for sharing! This really helped!!!

That’s interesting. Thanks for the explanation

Yeah but you’re left with everything else from cinnamon and the whole LMDE desktop and have to try to uninstall it all.

I know I’m being picky, but I want this just right.

I’ll check it out!

That’s why a federated git repo network of could be pretty cool.

You’re the first I’ve ever heard say this. (Or read in this case)

???

I have BTRFS on my current Ubuntu install with Steam/Heroic/Bottles and Proton works just fine.

What are some cases where it breaks games?

Yeah that’s what I’ve been trying to do but seem to fuck up every time.

Yeah LMDE seems like a good alternative, but I want a KDE desktop though.

It’s also relatively stable apparently. Even if the packages are more recent.

It’s just the community support and the occasional broken package dependencies that could be a problem.

And yeah Tumbleweed comes with Snapper by default and it’s configured in a way not supported by timeshift. Which I wish I could use to easily plan images or make manual ones before I fuck up while trying something.

I mistyped Debian rule 34 and wtf is this???

I didn’t know red spirals could do that

Damn! I was thinking of creating my own distro like this with basic quality of life features and your choice of desktop.

Maybe there are more Debian based distros out there like this. I should check.