Thank you for this very complete answer.

Going forward it will be interesting to see how often you *need* to rollback; you've already needed it once.

It looks from here that the choice of btrfs over ext4 might be a practical requirement because of the snapshot capability.

- Evan

On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 12:51 AM William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:

On 2026-01-02 17:42, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

On Fri, Jan 2, 2026 at 3:28 AM William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:

This is my first email from new distro (CachyOS).

Now that you have it installed, what are your initial impressions?

Will someone coming from Kubuntu, Debian or Fedora KDE be comfortable there?

- Evan

(Warning: long post)
[...] 7. Conclusion:
To answer Evan's question:

Will someone coming from Kubuntu, Debian or Fedora KDE be comfortable there?

Yes. If you pick the desktop you know, then everything is where it should be, and all the apps are what you were using before. Except for, package managers, of course.

Now, you can select "ext4" as your filesystem, and you really would have nothing to learn. I chose "btrfs" because I want to learn "btrfs".

--William