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Btrfs should've been Wayland (lemmy.zip)
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I think the problem with btrfs is that it entered the spotlight way to early. With Wayland there was time to work on a lot of the kinks before everyone started seriously switching.

On btrfs a bunch of people switched blindly and then lost data. This caused many to have a bad impression of btrfs. These days it is significantly better but because there was so much fear there is less attention paid to it and it is less widely used.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 14 hours ago

The key, probably, is that you're using KDE - you're playing "in the box". I'm sure it works fine in that situation, or under Gnome; the desktops go to great lengths to make sure they work well under Wayland. Things get more dicey if you're a WM user and are cobbling your environment out of multiple, independent programs.

I believe you about btrfs; enough people have complained about it that I'm convinced I've just been exceedingly lucky. I mean, by now I think it's probably as stable as anything, but it seems like it used to have more issues.