What is your experience with btrfs snapshots? - eviltoast
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    6 months ago

    Also, for people on distros that don’t have an OOTB solution like OpenSUSE have, I recommend snapper and btrfs-assistant. You just install both packages, open the assistant GUI and create a profile for your root partition.

    You can then also install a snapper plugin for your package manager, if one exists (I know DNF and pacman have one), which automatically take pre/post snapshots like OpenSUSE does, so you can quickly roll back if something goes wrong after a particular update/install/removal.

    I’ve been using the above with EndeavourOS for a year now and it’s come in very handy on a couple of occasions.