I used Mint before but i never noticed. Could be like i said i wasn’t really looking for it.
Edit: I’m used to Windows and Logical drives or Extended partitioning. I suppose LVM is somewhere in that realm? Just never really used LVM on Linux. The terminology is similar? 
Or I may be misremembering 
It has been quite a while.
LVM supports Software RAID levels with multiple disks together.
If old computers / motherboards use multiple disks together forming a volume group, then you need to set up LVM for these.
But ~99% laptops use a single hard drive, so there is no need to set up LVM.
There are many modern motherboards that support Hardware RAID, so you do not need to setup LVM for Software RAID.
Hardware RAID is more efficient than software RAID.
Nevertheless, Hardware RAID is more expensive than Software RAID and is inflexible.
I don’t understand when people want to use RAID 0 when using multiple nvme SSDs for PCIE slot. That is exaggerating.
That’s not even close to a statistic I think…
The only (opt-in) user info/data feedback I know is with Plasma. Maybe some major distros do as well, while Linux in general does not use call-home features AFAIK. Any discussion about Linux usage statistics sounds like a joke to me and… 
I don’t argue with the simplicity, or transparency of LVM/BTRFS usage, while users may not even know they are using those. Actual simplicity IMHO is defined in cases the user wants to modify their disk/partitioning layout, or when in need of troubleshooting such issues. I would expect a dedicated or full-featured GUI disk/partition manager might exist and make all required modifications in a simple and transparent (to the user) way. Then… we are talking 
And for the record… I have to DDG what thin provisioning is and its benefits, which I won’t (for now…). 
Like partitionmanager?
Thin provisioning means the space isn’t allocated until it is actually needed. The advantage of this being that if you have multiple “partitions” you don’t have to preallocate space to each and then have to deal with making changes to the disk later if you fail to estimate it properly.
A common example of thin provisioning is when you create VM and don’t preallocate the disk.
I was expecting you bring Gnome Disks in the room 
I was in the impression KDE Partitioner was not a trustworthy/suggestible app.
And BTRFS? How sure are you??
It sounds cool! Like an imaginary layout 
I don’t agree with this. KDE Partition Manager has been 100% reliable in my experience. I will choose it over gparted every time.
The problem with any disk modification tool is that those operations are inherently risky. When one of them fails sometimes people blame the tool.
Weren’t we talking about lvm? Support for btrfs subvolume management is something else altogether.
Thanks but I get a
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error with that link and returns the same if I use the link that search returns. Any ideas? That seems to be the answer I am looking for.
I thought the same but I was told at some point that if one prefers to have multiple filesystems (root, var, home, opt, etc.) on a device, LVM is an easy way to get that without fighting with the LUKS one-to-one rule.
Additionally, with a LVM layer I will have the LVM snapshot feature which increases capabilities for data housekeeping:
So I have always done it this way. But I am open to changing it and of course less overhead is better than more. Am I missing something?
All. On a separate note, I have an Optane System which seems to be more trouble than it would be worth dealing with. So, I am thinking about using the dedicated 30GiB SSD that it utilized for swap. Any thoughts?
I guess another option is to use it with the LVM if I continue down that road? I am not really familiar with Optane but it seems to be basically a RAID of some sort with clever marketing. LOOL
Found it. Just in case someone else stumbles on this thread in the future.
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/encrypted-installation/lvmonluks/2021/03/
Thanks for the help. Yeah, I actually did all of that but it still kicked out the warning. I am in the process of reinstalling it because I’d like to use a different partition scheme. I will see if it does it again and report back.
Thanks for the link. That was what I was looking for.
Hi. Actually, I am using ext4. Does Endeavour play nicer with btrfs?
EndeavourOS supports both ext4 and btrfs.
The installer also has support for both btrfs and lvm. However, it can use btrfs in it’s automatic erase disk mode while lvm requires manually partitioning.