Sounds great. So the installer automatically generates the /home partition as well, right? Normally you don’t get it without manual partitioning, at least this was the case in the past from my experiences.
Yeah if you look in my other post I shared the fstab output of the btrfs setup of my EndeavourOS vm that is setup by only selecting the disk and btrfs as my filesystem.
Here you see that it create separate sub-volume for root, cache, log and home. If you have an uefi boot system, it will automatically created the needed efi partition as well. You should be able to see that in your fstab file when you compare it to the btrfs output of my fstab file which is from my EndeavourOS vm.
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Alright, many thanks again. Last question (hopefully) for the new install: what option do you recommend for swap? No Swap / Swap with or without Hibernate or Swap to file? Usually it’s not a must have, but it doesn’t hurt right? Not sure about the differences between no/with Hibernate or Swap to file though. With the manual installation I just make the flags and use about 8 GB for the swap parition, but it’s a little confusing with all these options.
I use zram, that way I don’t have to use any disk space for it, even though I have enough.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram
I also found a topic explaining how to reinstall without losing the data on you home sub-volume if you were ever in need to do that at some point.
Thank you once again for your great support and help. You are awesome 
The notebook only has 16 GB VRAM, so swap should be the safer pick. I chose the option Swap with Hibernate, which should be fine. With that the swap partition will be large enough to hold what’s in the RAM.
Glad that you have a working system now with btrfs, I hope you have a good experience with it 
Now that your system is reinstalled you can get back on topic 
Would be curious to know after you compile and install that kernel from the PKGBUILD if your sound and your mic work.
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Yes, I am also very curious. Linux-mainline is already compiling. The default selection n(one) was made twice at the beginning and we will know more in a few hours
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@Cphusion
Just for fun i also installed the mainline kernel. I have slightly less powerful Cpu and it took just over the 3 hour mark also. My system is running btrfs also on Kde.
[ricklinux@plasma-kde ~]$ uname -a
Linux plasma-kde 6.8.0-rc4-1-mainline #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:15:58 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[ricklinux@plasma-kde ~]$
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I only compiled it but didn’t boot from it. Do you notice any speed differences or other user experience differences? I’ve never noticed any differences between any of the kernels I used whether that is default, lts, zen or the nobara kernel with the fsync patch and I think that patch was merged to upstream(kernel.org) some time ago.
Didn’t stay on it long enough but i don’t think there would be any difference in that manner. The mainline kernel is just newer. I already reverted with to the current kernel and removed the snapshots. I just wanted to see how it worked. I used to do this on Mint always running the latest mainline kernels everytime they came out approximately every two weeks. Did this for quite a few years.
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I just use the lts kernel now days and have the default kernel installed as an alternative kernel just in case, since I’m not going to notice any of the new features with each new kernel release, at least not with my hardware.
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I’m not an lts kernel user. Never have been and don’t believe it’s necessary unless there is some specific issue that can’t be resolved. I don’t find any stability issues using the latest kernels. My hardware works great and logs are pristine.
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Hey everyone,
one more question: the dependencies should be removed after compiling linux-mainline, so select yes, correct? No should be fine as well, but I’m not sure if these are needed in the future so saving some disk space probably won’t hurt.
@Ananda
I’m just waiting to see if you get the sound fixed.
I’ll let you know as soon as linux-mainline has finished compiling
Unfortunately, there was an error at the very end. The installation was cleaned and after clearing up there was a password request. However, we were having dinner at the time. This resulted in a timeout when reading the password and the following message:
Error during installation: [/home/atman/.cache/yay/linux-mainline/linux-mainline-6.8rc4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst] - exit status 1
I’m not sure you want to run it again. I personally don’t think it will fix your sound issue. 
Thanks for the hint. Would you try linux-next directly? According to the link originally shared, linux-next-20240129 has solved the issue (current version is 20240206):
EDIT 2: it’s actually fixed in linux-next-20240129 from today. Finally! Make sure to chose “Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller” and “Play Hifi quality Music” under configuration of Pulseaudio.
If you have proof that it has you could try.
No more than this:
It’s definitely worth a try. And if it works but there are problems, I can always try linux-mainline.