Read about btrfs issues people had on kernel version 6.15.4 - you’d be amazed. Some found a fix, some gave up. I don’t think it’s worth the risk

The OG poster (lemmy.ml so whatever) forgot to mention that backups and system recovery are a nightmare if anything goes wrong with the kernel, bootloader or both. Encrypt your home partition and swap, it’s easier and who cares about what packages you have installed system-wide. If you got NSA on your ass you’re cooked anyway. Encrypting non-system drives is more bearable

NTFS shat itself on newly bought hard drive, from what I remember in event viewer it said something about filesystem corruption. My steam library of 500+ GBs was gone, as well as my ripped music collection (at least I had that copied to my phone beforehead)

In other instance, a family computer. It was late 2023 and some buggy update happened that made start menu and taskbar unusable. Not clickable at all, couldn’t hide it either. Numeruous throubleshooting attempts later not even update supposed to fix the issue worked. I caved for linux for this PC too