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I would like to propose to add the subvolume layout @ for / and @home for /home, if one decides to use btrfs as the filesystem. This eases use with timeshift as one does not have to create these subvolumes manually. This is also what Ubuntu's ubiquity or Manjaro's Calamares installer do. It is basically just a couple of commands one hast to run before mounting the partitions.

I have sucessfully installed the 20.04 beta with btrfs inside a luks encrypted partition with and without RAID1, see here: https://mutschler.eu/linux/install-guides/

Thanks for the awesome work! I am running the beta on my production machine (I know I should not) :-)

Opensuse do better in this case. I think that relying on Opensuse would be a good idea.

Sure, but as far as I recall Opensuse also use @ and @home.

I would love to see this, too. It's the one thing keeping me away from using Pop long-term.

Sure, but as far as I recall Opensuse also use @ and @home.

When installed, BTRFS separates ALL folders from the root / into sub-volumes, allowing granular maintenance of the entire system in case of problems.

Opensuse do better in this case. I think that relying on Opensuse would be a good idea.

Although I would warmly welcome providing btrfs support right from the installer I cannot recommend relying openSUSE's installer which is a very complex and slightly outdated piece of software. There is however Fedora's Anaconda that is worth exploring.