It was included in the February announcement of the review release (a.k.a. pre-release) of Manjaro 25.0, which did request user feedback on changes such as the switch to btrfs
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Beginning of February after Lunar New Years we started our developement cycle of Manjaro 25.0 we code-named Zetar. Most likely the stable installer ISOs will be available in Mid-March featuring Plasma 6.3 , GNOME 48 and XFCE 4.20 .
So far we released already two preview releases. Another might come end next week (CW9), to align with Plasma 6 release schedule . For GNOME mid March (CW13) based on their release schedule .
In this topic we will discuss and reveal the changes we intend to do within th…
Another thing we will change is to change from ext4 to btrfs as the default file system. We already shipped support for btrfs in older releases. We also added automatic snapshots on btrfs with bootloader entries for these when btrfs was chosen by the user. Since our testing are all fine, why not make it now the defacto default. People can still change to ext4 or xfs in our auto-partitioning option or even format and structure their partition layout complete freely in the advanced mode of Calamares, the graphical installer we use.
So feel free to give us early feedback during this development cycle of Manjaro 25.0.
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