Setting up snapper on Arch
had thinkpad to spare; old opensuse tumbleweed; snapper on btrfs was convenient post mess ups.
don’t like distrohopping, like rolling releases, like docs, like snapper - installed arch (arch wiki’s great), will hijack with bedrock linux 1 some day.
installed with minimal defaults first(systemd-boot instead of grub), later decided to setup snapper : an involved process: crude state transitions as follows:
- systemd-boot + UKI -> grub + initramfs
- grub-btrfs convenience
- readily shows snapper snapshots
- setup pacman (pre and post mutation, temporal) snapper snapshot creation and cleanup hooks
been my DD for a while now : sway + waybar, wayland, gcc emacs, tmux, some handrolled CSS, a bunch of TUIs: been fun