Are not Btrfs Snapshots, and the ability to Boot into these, the Main attraction of Spiral Linux.

[Rewdan-a]

Looking through many forum discussions on Spiral Linux I note that what the developer probably considers - I certainly do - the main feature of Spiral Linux is hardly ever mentioned. No other Linux system, apart from Opensuse, provides a btrfs system absolutely ready for btrfs snapshots - and ready for booting and restoring into the snapshots of the system made at a previous time.

All flavors of Spiral Linux have a ready-made snap-shotting facility; even the "Builder" version.

BSD systems, when using the zfs filesystem, provide the facility. Ghostbsd provides it graphically. But these are not linux.

For me, at least, this is what makes Spiral Linux an outstanding distribution.

[zparihar]

This is exactly it.

I'd say the secondary benefits is all the desktop and CLI nuances that have already been done for you. It provides you all the conveniences and beauty that something like a Ubuntu desktop would offer.

"Debian Polished"

[bobf32]

Looking through many forum discussions on Spiral Linux I note that what the developer probably considers - I certainly do - the main feature of Spiral Linux is hardly ever mentioned. No other Linux system, apart from Opensuse, provides a btrfs system absolutely ready for btrfs snapshots - and ready for booting and restoring into the snapshots of the system made at a previous time.

All flavors of Spiral Linux have a ready-made snap-shotting facility; even the "Builder" version.

BSD systems, when using the zfs filesystem, provide the facility. Ghostbsd provides it graphically. But these are not linux.

For me, at least, this is what makes Spiral Linux an outstanding distribution.

I agree with the general point and it was the main draw for me, but Spiral is not the only distribution to do this. Cachy installer also supports similar.

[Rewdan-a]

Yes, Cachy is great. Its my everyday system now - since Spiral Linux has not been updated for Debian 13.

I also gave Endeavour and Garuda a go. Endeavour failed for me on its online installer always freezing at 10%. Garuda also had major mirror problems in spite of me optimising mirrors. Both of these, I think, had pre-configured snapshots.

Generally, Arch systems are implementing Btrfs with snapshots pre-configured. Not so much of this in Debian and Ubuntu land.