I for one would certainly recommend sticking with ext4; BTRFS is still in the “early adoption phase” as I’d call it and there are not all that many familiar enough with it in comparison with the tried-and-trusted ext4; especially important when dealing with issues you may need assistance with.
Just my 2p worth. 
Well, that wasn’t the message I was trying to convey.
BTRFS is inherently more complicated to manage than say EXT4 which is the most common choice in filesystems; however, as from the Manjaro 25 ISO’s BTRFS has actually been promoted to the default.
You still have the choice, and you can choose either during install.
For someone not particularly confident with Linux (yet) I’d probably suggest EXT4 as being the easiest to manage going forward. Otherwise, it would be useful to learn as much as you can about BTRFS and how it differs.
Regards.
Okay, so not bad, but too unusual to easily get out of it if things go wrong. I hope someone can help me out, otherwise I’m in for a format and data loss.
I’m sure someone will. Don’t forget that Members are in different time zones, and may not find your issue (or respond to it) at a time that’s convenient for you.
Booting from the very ISO you downloaded can help you to move data you want to keep elsewhere, if it comes to that. Ask someone for guidance if you decide to take that route.
While on the topic of ISO’s, I’d strongly recommend Ventoy as an alternative to writing an ISO to USB every time. I authored a guide for it recently;
I hope you find it useful.
I managed to backup what I could, and I won’t have much to lose.
Since this is my main PC and my work machine, I need to get it working again, so I’m going to format it.
This time, I’m going to put it in ext4, otherwise if something goes wrong, I’ll struggle again.
Thank you for taking the time to help me, even though I’ve wasted more of your time than anything else, sorry about that.
I’ll mention also that keeping /home on a separate partition can be advantageous; especially if you ever need to reinstall again. This would involve manually creating needed partitions and assigning mountpoints.
The downside for a newer user is that it’s a little more hands-on (and in-depth) - you would need to then choose the manual partitioning method during install; and if you ever need to reinstall.
The trick is not to format the /home partition so that your previous User settings (and data) are retained; it’s still advisable to backup /home beforehand, or at least relocate anything mission-critical.
But this may be beyond your needs for the time being.
Regards.
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