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These days, starting out (again) without worrying about partition schemes and swap can be a lot simpler than it used to be. The general trend seems to be going towards the BTRFS filesystem - and with only EFI (the boot) and root (the system), for beginners.

If you’ve got a whole drive (with no data you want to keep) to spare for a virgin install, just choose it in the installer, choose “erase disk”, and “btrfs” as the file system, and “no swap” - and the installer will create subvolumes and take care of the rest.

After the first boot you can open the terminal and follow this guide, it will take care of swap for you. Zram works nicely with snapshots, which lets you restore the system in seconds:

Htop can be installed with the terminal.

Then, I suggest you google something like “Timeshift +EndeavorOS”, and then google something like “ext4 vs btrfs”. You can read up on those, and partitions and swap, in peace and quiet. Good luck and welcome!

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