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Just installed fedora to replace windows 10. I've used mint and ubuntu as a general purpose os in the past but it's been a few years and I was never a power user, just learned what I needed as I went.

I remember it being important to use timeshift to safeguard against breaking something with updates, but it seems like timeshift doesn't work on fedora. Rather, you can get it to work on fedora but it's not supported. The thing that is confusing me is, searching for a way to do snapshots on fedora, I haven't really found what I expected? There's nothing I can see in software or flathub, timeshift or the alternatives mentioned on forums. I'm think I'm going to proceed with figuring out snapper using btrfs assistant as a gui...

But, given that I remember timeshift being basically recommended all the time to everyone when I used to use linux, I can't find anyone all that interested in using snapshots with fedora. Is it not necessary with fedora? Does fedora somehow handle that already? I can make do with the information I can find, but I'm wondering why there is so little information about it at all. I can't really find anything that suggests it's important to make snapshots. Or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places? Can someone help me understand this better?

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[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 4 points 15 hours ago

Idk, but my install offers a version rollback at the bootloader. Had a weird graphics issue after an update, so I just used an older version for a week or so till a new update fixed it.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What filesystem is being used?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

The default on Fedora is btrfs, which sounds like what OP is using.