Wanted to do Manjaro, after googling found out it has a very bad reputation (arindas/manjarno: Reasons for which I don’t use Manjaro anymore) — I’ll go with EndeavourOS. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed will be my next choice if this fails.

Strategy:

• /opt will have executable programs
  • TG, hugo(?), pycharm, kitty?..
  • qtile, qutebrowser
• home encrypted, but separate swap+etc. partitions of size of ram
  • or not, since encrypted home/swap/… and hibernation are hard — so only encryption
• FS: BTRFS
  • …because snappshotting for if one randomly rms /etc¹².
    • SysadminGuide - btrfs Wiki
    • I like this: Btrfs - Manjaro
    • Reasons against exist³.
      • df will incorrectly report space usage
      • no native encryption support
      • complexity
  • F2FS is the fastest for SSDs but can lose data if battery dies
• Dotfiles
  • radically simplify everything, no need to source global ones and /home/me etc. — I’ll just use the same user for everything

OK, EndeavourOS+btfrs it is.

• Post-install steps
  • Average User’s To Do List after doing a fresh install of Endeavour OS with KDE Plasma : r/EndeavourOS
  • https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/coming-from-manjaro-to-endeavouros-installation-advice-for-btrfs-snapper-btrfs-assistant/34003/2 setting up snapshots