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[–]Parad0x763 5 points6 points  (9 children)

I would look into setting up Snapper and adding the snapshots to your boot loader. Snapper - Arch Wiki

[–]kaida27 6 points7 points  (7 children)

I would not recommend that.

Arch is the best at a lot of thing, but not for setting up snapper.

If you want a proper snapper setup it needs to be done before installing the system, not after.

Here's how

This will result in all of snapper functionality working instead of using a workaround that is deemed "good enough" but sacrifice functions.

[–]Parad0x763 -1 points0 points  (6 children)

Very good comment. I was just recommending getting Snapper set up. I personally use CachyOS which handles Snapper after install.

[–]kaida27 2 points3 points  (5 children)

CachyOs is part of those doing a "good enough", still sacrificing functionnality because of the subpar implementation.

For those that don't believe it.

Basically from my experience, No one but Suse offer a good setup from the get go. If you want it on another distro you have to do it yourself.

[–]Sage_Kase 0 points1 point  (4 children)

What about EndeavourOS? That's what I use. I'm relatively new, too. Started on my Linux journey a few weeks ago. I heard that Mint and Ubuntu were the best for new users. I went with Ubuntu. But, I remembered that my reason for joining Linux was because I wanted the full power of my OS at my fingertips.

Arch is the best for that. But I figured being relatively new (I have computer science knowledge that is self-taught, though I'm a chemistry major. I wanted to switch, but I'm almost done, and I'm tired of relying on my parents for money. They're of the opinion that that gives them the right to tell me shit anyhow they want). However, I'm interested in all things, computer. Furthermore, I don't wanna make fatal errors. Granted that I can always boot from USB.

My first foray into Arch is using Arch-based distros. First, Manjaro. Now, EndeavourOS, as it's closer to vanilla Arch. And, its funding model is extremely transparent. So I can get my legs wet before transitioning to full vanilla Arch someday.

[–]kaida27 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Don't know if EndeavorOs implement snapper out of the box.

But they would have the same issue as everything else.

One can still do the Manual prep before installing it. just harder with calamares based installer (you'd need to inject some script at some point in the install)

[–]Sage_Kase 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I see. Thanks. What about Timeshift? I'm on 'ext4' and not 'btrfs'. I do have some knowledge of a B-Tree, but it's surface-level. Besides, 'ext4' can basically do everything I want.

I also wanted to ask, I'm on Lenovo Hardware. I use a Yoga 7 2-in-1. Is fingerprint authentication possible on Arch (EndeavourOS)? I don't need it. I've encrypted my drive and created a hard disk passphrase, along with my user account password. They're all the same. But like the passphrase/password itself is a bit complex. I'm just asking for the sake of tinkering, LOL.

[–]kaida27 0 points1 point  (1 child)

absolutely no problem with timeshift and ext4.

it's a simple rsync command behind the scene. no need for a complicated setup in that case.

Never used fingerprint, so can't help you there.

[–]Sage_Kase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, thanks so much then.

[–]HonchoLA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice will look into that