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@ProdigalFrog @throws_lemy the article crying about ostree being "fearsomely complex" while it's literally the first real "install and forget" system I've ever used. Also BTRFS doesn't break nearly as much as some people believe.
Uninformed bullshit.
Yeah, I don't understand the fixation on BTRFS in the article. Nobody's going to have BTRFS problems unless they're doing advanced things that the documentation clearly says are experimental and unsupported. Nobody's going to accidentally set up a RAID5 array, or accidentally create a swap file on a non-swap-friendly volume. The average user won't see any difference between BTRFS and EXT4, except that BTRFS snapshots might save their butt in an emergency.
BTRFS is a perfectly reasonable choice as a default filesystem. Probably the best choice in general. Last year I thought bcachefs was the future, but now that's getting dropped from the Linux kernel so nope, guess I'll stick with BTRFS.
It is an odd thing to disqualify it as well, since the Ostree stuff is not used by normal users on those distros, and at least on uBlue distros, they are even replacing the DE store witg their own that only offers flatland, essentially making it as simple as android to use.
There are still some kinks to work out to make it a true replacement to ChromeOS (if there's still a single app on the store that needs flatseal to get working or fix some visual glitch, or allow to view a certain directory, then it wouldn't be as smooth as ChromeOS), but it's getting pretty close to what the author wants.