My previous post described how I migrated my girlfriend’s father from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. While doing so, I used the default Ext4 filesystem, as opposed to Btrfs, for the root partition. No big deal, but Btrfs makes it a whole lot easier snapshotting the filesystem and rolling back if needed. Timeshift can automatically take care of all that, and it allows for some more peace of mind while configuring automatic OS updates. ...
The other day my girlfriend’s father briefly mentioned he was considering buying a new computer, because of Windows 10 being end-of-life soon, and his current computer’s specifications would be too low to upgrade to Windows 11 (I suspect the lack of TPM 2.0, but I’m not sure). The man is in his mid 70s and regularly uses his computer to browse the Internet, communicate using social media, reply on emails, play solitaire, et cetera. I therefore suspected he wouldn’t really need to buy a brand-new computer for his use cases, only to satisfy the income of a Big Tech company. ...
Last Friday, just before closing my laptop and enjoying my weekend I managed to break my EndeavourOS VM by accidentally shutting it down while it was still updating the kernel in another terminal session. It no longer booted as a result. To fix it, I found a helpful blog post by Edmund Goodman which proved useful, albeit slightly different from my environment. Goodman was using GRUB and Ext4, whereas my environment is using Systemd-boot and Btrfs. ...