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CachyOS is very btrfs savvy. I would try booting from a CachyOS ISO.
All distros are. 🙄
Yes, but some do things better than others. CachyOS is btrfs by default, and does btrfs better than most. Btrfs is a bit more complex than your vanilla ext4.
Bazzite excels at gaming related things. Alpine at lightweight stuff, Nix at inmutability, etc...
That is one of the defining characteristics of Linux.
Ehhhhhh, kinda. "better" is highly subjective. Distros are "bundles of software" and a philosophy about how things are installed / when they are installed / what their default settings are / etc.
A lot of people, especially newbs and less technical folks, grossly misunderstand what those differences are and what they mean.
Bullshit. Not that it's btrfs by default but that it does it "better" than anyone else is ridiculous. It uses the same kernel driver and user-land tools as my Pop_OS install which is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and which, believe it or not, is running btrfs just fine.
Kid - I remember when ext4 was released. Very exciting to have a journaling filesystem at the time...
"excels" at meaning "has steam installed by default" and "makes nvidia drivers easier to install" you mean.
My Pop_OS laptop runs game just fine.
All these distros with their various design goals and bundled packages are variations on a theme. Like different Lego sets that include parts from a common box. But when you use the "btrfs" block you use the same one everyone else does.
And none of them will deal gracefully with a failing disk that the OS has been told not to ignore errors on.
"Kid"? Man, to call me kid you must be a really old fuck.