I use timeshift, on Arch and a Debian setup . It's simple to set up, I do a automatic snapshot once a day, so if something breaks, just boot into tty and restore the previous day's snapshot, takes about five minutes. Not sure why you say ext4 doesn't work as it does. Haven't tried the other programs that you talked about
Minty95
Diaro sends me a notification and the end of the Day, reminding me to write something.
I keep a diary using Diaro on my android phone. I started a long time ago in note books, but as even I can't alway read my own writing, switched to typing. I don't write much, mostly rubbish, what I do find useful is the ability to search and find things, 'repaired the fridge' 'changed the battery in the smoke alarm', 'had so and so around for dinner' , 'bought this and that' .... It's only for myself, do when I'm dead and gone it will just disappear like myself
Yes i know, i tried it about two times, but found it extremely poor, was easier to install it by 'hand'
Not that I remember
I do a Syu almost every day, I also do a Timeshift snapshot every day. So if ever something is broken I can just boot into TS and reinstall yesterday's working system. Then I read the forums. That way I can see what breaks the system Only ever needed to that twice because of Nvidia updates (I'm running a very old card)
The Arch install is much lighter, Endeavour like many other linuxes, installs programs that you may or may not require. I prefer adding programd when I require them
I went from Manjaro to Arch. Installed by command line (took a few tries to get it done... ) I tried their installer but it wasn't very good. Have also run Endeavour on a second pc for a while but I prefer pure Arch.
I've got a feeling that I read that is corrected on the latest beta update, might be worth checking that out
No I do not see that as a problem. I think, seeing some of their clients that it's a reliable company
After reading what you wrote and as I have time, being retired... thought I'd look at what you suggested, so now I have Duckdns & WireGuard setup as well, it's no where as easy as Tailscale. So I wrote a post, rather long 😭 on my blog about setting it up https://www.minty95.com/remote-access-home-assistant-from-your-phone/ Maybe it will help others save time. Thanks for giving me the idea to look into it 👍
For note taking, Joplin is pretty good, in fact I went from Simplenote to Evernote (over kill and not free) to Joplin using Dropbox for the syncing (syncing is done by Joplin, so you don't need a 'syncing' app) between my PCs, all Linux and my Android phone. Simple to set up and free. I do not use it as a Journal as that is extremely poor, but for notes, it's perfect