It wasn’t Manjaro… Manjaro wasn’t that bad… it was Artix!
You are right for sure. But sometimes, on a rainy day, or you have important/urgent things or even ill or tired. I would better roll back my car to a working state go home, have a shower, rest… then I attend to the car! It is just a matter of convenience. Else why did I keep struggling to reach this point where I am NOW.
Well, I’ve been telling you for the past few days that you’re unnecessarily making your life more complicated than it needs to be.
And now you’re applying the sunken cost fallacy to this.
My advice: K.I.S.S.
Use ext4, make a backup, forget about timeshift, fix your locale and enjoy your computer… Learn to walk before you attempt to fly.
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At least I have a working system that even if got broken for any reason (mostly by me) I can go back in time to a working state.
And I assure you… I always keep learning as much as I can.
Different, not better.
Yes.
I am the original author and maintainer of Btrfs Assistant so I am probably not the most objective person to ask. 
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This clarifies it.
I trust you and trust your opinion for sure no matter what.
But I will try and do my homework and read about BTRFS Assistant.
Not after I am here. Not after all this time and effort. Not after taking that much time from you. Not after all what @dalto helped me with.
If I stay with EXT4 I will not be experiencing something new, I will not be learning something new.
Only IF it caused me problems, serious problems I mean!
Sunken cost fallacy.
Oh trust me, you’ll have plenty to learn for several years without even getting started with an advanced topic like Btrfs.
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Off Topic but it is defined as:
the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.
“even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial” which is not the case for me (yet) as I do not see going back to EXT4 is more beneficial. The opposite is true.
I don’t mind making another fresh install to EXT4 if I find the situation as such.
Do you mean BTRFS is made for developers only, not for “normal” users?!!!
I don’t think the developers have this in mind!
Anyway… let us wait and see.
I’ve never said Btrfs is made for developers only. What does that even mean?
It’s for people who need and appreciate its features and are willing to sacrifice some simplicity for those features. But if you don’t even know what subvolumes are, or what copy-on-write is, I don’t see how you can miss having those things.
On the other hand, ext4 is a very solid filesystem for general purpose use. It’s not outdated in any way.
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I am learning anyway!
I agree with you!
@limotux
You are way overthinking this. It is best to just install EndeavourOS kde using swap file and btrfs. Then once it is installed you can install btrfs assistant and what ever else is required in order to make snapshots. It’s that simple and it works. I haven’t had any issues with it on KDE and i have disabled baloo as i don’t need it.
Once you have it installed just use it and stop overthinking every thing. In my opinion you are going way overboard unnecessarily. 
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Hi @ricklinux
Thanks for caring to communicate and guide me.
Not really overthinking, just trying to figure out how to get the most out of BTRFS.
I don’t really have swap… I just followed the defaults while installing.
I understand snapper and BTRFS Assistant are the “advanced” tech. But for me I chose “TimeShift” as it is much simpler for me and followed the instructions on EndeavourOS website.
It is running OK now and having snapshots created automatically.
Installed Recoll and everything is working perfectly for me.
I am really enjoying EndeavourOS and this wonderful community that adds vaue to EOS.
I understand and you are right… I maybe overthinking but I hope you agree with me it is actually trying to find the best thing, and learning a little bit (on the job training).
In the final analysis, I am just a humble simple home user not a techie by any means (though just sometimes curious! way back in the early 90s, browsing, aaah.. it is html file, what is that, how it is written… how to make one, what is html language… just curiosity. Well, I am not an automobile engineer and I don’t want to be, but I am curious to know how the engine works, where does the energy come from, how the gearbox work, why? just curiosity nothing more.)
All what I need is just a car that I just use to take me from here to there!
I know I may sound boring, silly, stupid… whtever you call it it is OK with me.
I am just curious. My nature (unfortunately or fortunately)
By the way, I got curious one day, what would banks, air lines, ministries of defense.. whatever mission critical are using as OS for their computers, to me it was impossible to imagine they are using “our windoze” that crashes every 10 minutes… this curiosity made me discover Linux.
I’m just thinking loud with you.
Thank you.
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