I noticed the only moderator hasn't been active on Lemmy for 10 months. I'll ping them in the comments.

I am a long term Arch user. I consider to recommend CachyOS to a friend with very limited technical knowledge. I read CachyOS is suitable for Linux beginners. But since it is based on Arch, doesn't that mean manual user intervention is sometimes necessary like it is in Arch? If it is, I don't think it is suitable for a noob user.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I could not find anything about manual intervention or about checking Arch news before updating in the Cachy wiki or anywhere else.

What I want:

To boot into a BTRFS snapshots from rEFind boot manager.

Additional Info:

1. So, apparently, to restore the BTRFS snapshot of a root subvolume, I shouldn't do it with the root partition being actively used.

2. So, I need to boot into the desired snapshot from the boot manager itself.

3. GRUB has grub-btrfs, which lets you boot into snapshot from OS selection screen itself.

4. rEFInd has refind-btrfs, which should do the same as grub-btrfs. But it didn't in my case. I am not seeing any way to boot into a snapshot from rEFInd.

5. I use BTRFS Assistant with snapper to manage snapshots.

6. I am not seeing any way to restore the snapshot from live environment too.

7. I am using CachyOS (Arch) with Plasma DE.

8. I suspect the reason is my unusual /efi /boot partition layout. (attached below)

9. I did my partition this way because, my initial EFI partition had less storage (as seen on image), so , I created another boot partition and mounted my pre-existing EFI partition to /boot/efi. I did this by referring a Youtube video (I know, I should've known better)

10. I also encrypted my BTRFS / partition

11. If you need any other info, please ask.

I'm using CachyOS (Arch) with BTRFS. And tried to restore snap of root subvolume and it didn't work ( see previous post ).

If I remember correctly, i successfully restored root subvolume before. Take it with a grain of salt.

Some people on my previos posts said that I shouldn't have tried restore root subvol while system is actively running through the subvol.

Now my question is,

How to restore a snap of root subvolume ?

Edit: I know how to restore a snapshot. Just need help with root subvol snapshot.

I use BTRFS Assistant with snapper. And rEFInd doens't have boot to snapshot option. (I installed and it didn't work )

While i was searching for the fastfetch config file, i was discovering the cachyOS config for the fish shell. It has some nice alias:

## Useful aliases
# Replace ls with eza
alias ls='eza -al --color=always --group-directories-first --icons' # preferred listing
alias la='eza -a --color=always --group-directories-first --icons'  # all files and dirs
alias ll='eza -l --color=always --group-directories-first --icons'  # long format
alias lt='eza -aT --color=always --group-directories-first --icons' # tree listing
alias l.="eza -a | grep -e '^\.'"                                     # show only dotfiles

# Common use
alias grubup="sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg"
alias fixpacman="sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck"
alias tarnow='tar -acf '
alias untar='tar -zxvf '
alias wget='wget -c '
alias psmem='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4'
alias psmem10='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias ....='cd ../../..'
alias .....='cd ../../../..'
alias ......='cd ../../../../..'
alias dir='dir --color=auto'
alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
alias hw='hwinfo --short'                                   # Hardware Info
alias big="expac -H M '%m\t%n' | sort -h | nl"              # Sort installed packages according to size in MB
alias gitpkg='pacman -Q | grep -i "\-git" | wc -l'          # List amount of -git packages
alias update='sudo pacman -Syu'

# Get fastest mirrors
alias mirror="sudo cachyos-rate-mirrors"

# Help people new to Arch
alias apt='man pacman'
alias apt-get='man pacman'
alias please='sudo'
alias tb='nc termbin.com 9999'

# Cleanup orphaned packages
alias cleanup='sudo pacman -Rns (pacman -Qtdq)'

# Get the error messages from journalctl
alias jctl="journalctl -p 3 -xb"

# Recent installed packages
alias rip="expac --timefmt='%Y-%m-%d %T' '%l\t%n %v' | sort | tail -200 | nl"

please for sudo is funny^^

Context: I updated my CachyOS (Arch) BTRFS system. Some new things caused few problems especially brave browser(missing tabs), some icons missing.

So I wanted to go back to previous snapshot.

What I did: I first restored my home subvol which I saved before update. I worked.

Then I tried to restored my root partition. This is where I got the problem.

I got this error.

I would really appreciate URGENT help

If you need any more details I can provide.

EDIT

1. I used BTRFS Assistant to restore the root partition. And I did it while the OS is running.

( I previously did that and got no issues )

2. I pressed crtl+d and got 👇🏽

3. I typed my password and went into maintenance. Typed journalctl -xb and got 2667 lines 😵‍💫. While scrolling mindlessly, this looked like something 👇🏽

👉🏽

👉🏽

4. This is my refind_linux.conf 👇🏽

"Boot with standard options"    "quiet zswap.enabled=0 nowatchdog splash rw rootflags=subvol=/@ cryptdevice=UUID=60ecb22d-7685-43c2-ae2a-a2ad0c531cc7:luks-60ecb22d-7685-43c2-ae2a-a2ad0c531cc7 root=/dev/mapper/luks-60ecb22d-7685-43c2-ae2a-a2ad0c531cc7"

"Boot to single-user mode"    "quiet zswap.enabled=0 nowatchdog splash rw rootflags=subvol=/@ cryptdevice=UUID=60ecb22d-7685-43c2-ae2a-a2ad0c531cc7:luks-60ecb22d-7685-43c2-ae2a-a2ad0c531cc7 root=/dev/mapper/luks-60ecb22d-7685-43c2-ae2a-a2ad0c531cc7" single

"Boot with minimal options"   "ro root=/dev/mapper/luks-60ecb22d-7685-43c2-ae2a-a2ad0c531cc7"

5. This my OS partition 👇🏽

6. This is my subvol layout 👇🏽 (CachyOS default)

Im really Happy now runs blazing fast

I'm in the market for a new laptop and I've been checking out the Lenovo Slim 7i (14” Intel) Gen 9, which comes with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB of soldered RAM, and a 1920x1200 60Hz OLED display. This setup is priced just over a grand (USD).

More details could be found here lenovo.com/ca

I installed CachyOS with Plasma DE and found it has no discover in it. When I searched on their sub lots of people say that one shouldn't use Discover with any Arch distro as it will break the system. Can anybody clarify why?

Also if I am not supposed to use Discover, can anybody suggest an actual GUI application store? Unlike Octopi (which I consider just as a TUI with check boxes and columns)

Edit: I only use Discover for find and install new apps.

For updating, I just use paru.

Ich habe heute meine Windows Partition gegen CachyOS getauscht. Bisher DualBoot Mint/Windows. Mal schauen, wie es weitergeht.