@adiz @Cocoa Yast is a crutch similar to cpanel. I don't want some external application keeping state independent of the OS's own tracking.

BTRFS can go on most distributions at this point if you want it. Debian has it if you choose it at setup time.

Snapper is not a backup, it's a snapshot system. If your machine takes a shit it won't help you. If you get to a point of needing it, you fucked up and don't have a proper backup which is fuck up #2.

Rolling releases introduce breaking changes and new features constantly vs. a point release model where it's just security and bugfixes, which have way less surface area to screw up. Can't tell you how many vulns I've avoided by just sticking with an LTS release vs. "The latest and greatest".

There's a reason why I can run something like 60 virtual machines myself without IaC. It's because shit doesn't break when you don't introduce unnecessary entropy.