Piko Starsider :verified_paw:

@sirsquid now that modchips are open source and cost like $15 instead of being made by one company for $90, they seem desperate and are looking for some case that they might win

@muhyb I use EndeavourOS myself, but I was wondering if there’s an Arch based distro that is a bit more stable and that I can recommend to people but still allows for using AUR without much trouble.

@muhyb What arch based distros would you recommend?

@RandomLegend @Privatepower42 I’m confused, are you talking about the stream deck or the steam deck? Completely different products.

@sugar_in_your_tea @BlinkerFluid I love btrfs for the system partition but I’m a bit afraid of using it for my data, I use zfs for that instead. In both cases I use zstd compression and it works like a charm.

Ext4 doesn’t support snapshots, however snapper supported it for a while with a kernel patch. There’s also timeshift which uses hard links and rsync in ext4 to provide a similar functionality, with no special kernel support. It also can use btrfs but I prefer snapper for that because of snap-pac and snap-pac-grub.

I also ran out of system storage so I added another device to the same btrfs and it works like a charm.

@BlinkerFluid My Arch automatically makes a btrfs snapshot before and after every time pacman is used, and creates a separate GRUB entry for them… so I update and install stuff fearlessly, knowing that if something breaks, at worst I will just have to reboot to go back to a working system. With snapper-gui I can delete old snapshots easily.

I think there should be an Arch distro that comes preconfigured with this.