• thepoaster@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I like that it takes automatic backups of my important stuff with btrfs because I’m too lazy to do it myself. I think that’s the main reason it runs heavier. Probably better to do it your way if you know what you’re doing.

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      1 year ago

      No, it has nothing to do with BTRFS.
      BTRFS is barely slower than EXT4; you wouldn’t even notice the difference.
      I use BTRFS on Arch with a plain KDE plasma desktop and it has no such slowdown experienced with the Garuda equivalent.
      I believe it’s because they enable a bunch of resource heavy effects, such as wobbly windows and have a few extra background processes; things not enabled or included in a plain Arch install by default.