Why not have an option for novice that does choice of UEFI or Legacy install with ext4 full root and swap of ram size - now you don't have to worry about size and btrfs problems for novices users - that is better until they can comprehend btrfs and other file system types and partitions.

That is how I install every OpenSUSE for users - no btrfs - instead I provide an external 2gb drive and scripts to backup and restore the drives. I also provide a bootable  usb drive with a saved blkid of the system and a script to make all the file systems needed and to restore the last full backup on the external drive so that the restore script can put everything back where it was before the "disaster".

Few users understand enough "linux or windows" to know what they are doing. You have to make it idiot proof. Like the sign over the testing room at Microsoft in 1982 said - "We try to make our Software Idiot Proof" someone with magic marker wrote below it "But the Idiots keep getting smarter".

Right now I have over 100 users doing this all over the world. All using english for the install but some have changed to their native keyboards (france and turkey). All were ready to go back to Windows after trying Linux until I reinstalled an easy to support version.

Btrfs is not novice friendly and should be a choice for those that understand snapshots - I bet half the people with btrfs do not know how to rollback a problem.

My 2 cents - Unix since 1973, Linux since 1995.

On 08/05/2021 17.37, Sid Boyce wrote:

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Sid.


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Subject:     Re: Fwd: snapshots filling up SSD
Date:     Sat, 8 May 2021 15:29:09 +0000
From:     Sav. Mellor <>
To:     Sid Boyce <>

SSD are partitioned the same as normal disks, there is no difference. You could leave some space outside of any partition for wear levelling.