The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.

This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.

To get an idea of this community, and to try the cool CryptPad Survey feature, I created a pretty big Linux usage survey!

The data is anonymized and the content encrypted on the server. I plan on publishing the results.

Have fun!

It works on hardened Firefox on a phone, but the experience is better on a PC.

live results

Notes

1. I am very sorry but the question "it is okay that my above message gets published" cannot reasonably be respected, as the text is just dumped into a single block
2. Lag caused some empty questions to appear, removed
3. A question about disk encryption and "why do you use other OS" got mixed up
4. i changed the wording of some questions or added more options, so there may be duplicate old answers or too little new ones. You can edit your submission and update your answers.

Hi, I want to do an "awesome things" list with BTRFS tools

Help me gather them?

Update: see here

General

BTRFS CLI Interface

• Fedora Magazine
• Arch Wiki
• Debian Wiki

btrfs-progs

official userpace utilities

BTRFS Assistant

Tool for doing many BTRFS actions graphically

It requires snapper and offers a GUI for it.

butter-manager

Tool for managing snapshots, balancing filesystems and upgrading the system safetly.

Backups & Snapshots

btrbk

• Code
• CalculateLinux Wiki
• FAQ

Backup utility using BTRFS

Snapper

General system snapshot utility with BTRFS support, used in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed by default. There are also plugins for Fedoras dnf and for Arch pacman.

• ArchWiki
• OpenSUSE Docs
• RedHat Docs
• OpenSUSE [DE]
• SUSE Enterprise Linux [DE]

Timeshift

System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.

Currently maintained by LinuxMint, even though they dont use BTRFS by default, it works better there.

• ArchWiki
• Debian Wiki
• thelinuxcode
• linuxconfig
• Mir Rahed Uddin's Guide
• Its FOSS Guide
• [DE] Linuxcommunity Guide

libtuikit / transactional-update

Used in OpenSUSE microOS and the Desktop variants.

provides an application and library to update a Linux operating system in a transactional way, i.e. the update will be performed in the background while the system continues running as it is. Only if the update was the successful as a whole the system will boot into the new snapshot.

Available as a library for other distros.

Yet Another BTRFS Snapshotter

Alternatives don't supports customized of snapshot location, (e.g. Arch recommended layout). Adhering to such layouts, and rolling back using them, sometime involve non-obvious workarounds. The motivation for yabsnap was to create a simpler, hackable and customizable snapshot system.

btrfs-autosnap

There are 2 separate projects with that name

• shell script for automating and deleting snapshots
• Arch pacman hook (AUR package)

grub-btrfs

Set BTRFS snapshots as boot options

• installation (outdated Fedora COPR)
• Debian guide
• Ubuntu guide
• blog post

[btrfs-sxbackup])https://github.com/masc3d/btrfs-sxbackup)

Incremental btrfs snapshot backups with push/pull support via SSH

Small CLI tools

btrfsd - tiny Btrfs maintenance daemon

Btrfsd is a lightweight daemon that takes care of all Btrfs filesystems on a Linux system.

It can:

• Check for detected errors and broadcast a warning if any were found, or optionally send an email
• Perform scrub periodically if the system is not on battery
• Optionally schedule balancing operations as well

dupreremove

• Code
• Gentoo Wiki

Tools for deduplicating file systems

compsize

• Fedora Magazine on BTRFS compression

Takes a list of files on a btrfs filesystem and measures used compression types and effective compression ratio

Used in flatpak-dedup-checker

btdu

sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs For multiple reasons, classic disk usage analyzers such as ncdu cannot provide an accurate depiction of actual disk usage. (btrfs compression in particular is challenging to classic analyzers, and special tools must be used to query compressed usage.)

btrfs-list

Helps listing directories

btrfs-fuse

A read-only btrfs implementation using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). Although btrfs is already in mainline Linux kernel, there are still use-cases for such read-only btrfs implementation:

btrfs debugger

The btrfs debugger (pronounced "buttered").

btrd is a REPL debugger that helps inspect mounted btrfs filesystems. btrd is particularly useful in exploring on-disk structures and has full knowledge of all on-disk types.

ntfs2btrfs

a tool which does in-place conversion of Microsoft's NTFS filesystem to the open-source filesystem Btrfs, much as btrfs-convert does for ext2. The original image is saved as a reflink copy at image/ntfs.img, and if you want to keep the conversion you can delete this to free up space.

Consists of a Windows and a Linux executable. Does not work on the primary drive.

WinBTRFS

filesystem driver for Windows

Partition managers with support

• KDE-Partitionamanger
• GNOME-Disks
• blivet-gui (Fedora Anaconda setup)
• gparted ?

Data recovery

When having deleted or corrupted data on a BTRFS partition, these tools can help:

Testdisk?

• photorec?

Scalpel?

R-Linux

Freeware, not FOSS? Not related to R and "R-Studio" is also not related to RStudio

BTRFS bindings

These allow you to do BTRFS actions in many programming languages

• Python 3 (Docs)
• Rust (Website, Docs)
• Go
• more parsing libraries here

Current prerelease is 1.2.5

1.2.4 is the first to introduce experimental Wayland support. Especially on KDE Plasma there are supposed to be some issues.

Lets test!

Why?

Regular RDP/VNC programs are hard to use in real scenarios, as they rely on IP addresses. RustDesk is easier as it uses a Rendezvouz server that can also be selfhostet or reimplemented.

I found the talk really interesting, especially how CentOS-Stream means SIGs can fork the hell out of it.

The Hyperscale SIG highly modifies it, by backporting tons of packages, shipping modern Kernel, systemd and more.

They also ship btrfs-kmod to use BTRFS like an out-of-tree driver on regular RHEL/CentOS.

They enable livepatching for the Kernel.

And a lot more!

PS: if you are looking for the official LTS Linux kernel, built for Fedora, CentOS & RHEL, check out this COPR

currently doing a fix of the code, wait for the 0.2 release!

Thunderbird is great, but very complex and possibly insecure and not private.

Threat model is an important key word here. Imagine you would write Mails over Tor/Tails only and need a secure Mail client.

(Btw I can recommend Carburetor Flatpak for that).

Because of this, the thunderbird hardening user.js, similar to the Arkenfox project exists.

But it is a bit too strict for most threat models. Also settings might change or break, and this has no automatic updating mechanism.

(I should upstream the updater)

The user.js is also just a template, so a ton of mostly not needed configs will stay there.

This project makes the setup of the hardening user.js easy.

Once setup, the script is placed in ~/.local/bin and a user systemd service runs it every once in a while.

You can comment out lines if you want to keep certain settings.

A while ago I was looking for a list of available Flatpak repositories but didnt find one, so I made my own.

Note that most developers put everything stable onto Flathub. But there are a ton of other remotes I found, most are for development, beta and nightly things, but there is also a Firefox ESR remote and more interesting stuff to find.

I want this list to be complete so if you know any more please open a PR or Issue!

(I used this list to include a few more tutorials like Flathub subsections)

Change Proposal

Short: fwupd users download small but in total too much metadata over the internet.

A solution for local distribution is needed. IPFS is too slow, Bittorrent is immediately suspicious on many Networks.

Passim is a new protocol for this purpose, users can opt out, it is secure and the metadata is hashed, and the hashes still downloaded over the internet for verification.

Edit: I dont recommend this lol

They install an outdated package on purpose, because Blackmagic doesnt give a damn about Linux lol.

Use this Flatpak tool instead, which should work, will keep all the strange dependencies in an isolated container, and you can control filesystem permissions of that shady proprietary software from the GUI.

I wondered, Browsers work really well, are already there anyways, have all the GPU stuff etc already dealt with. They also have portal support so Wayland works great.

It could use the Browsers screencast ability on all platforms, and run with Javascript and WASM.

The stuff could be installed in a local Podman container and thus also work natively on Linux.

Do you know an app that does this, client-side?

Thanks to the actually helpful people:

screenity, GPLv3, has some nice features

recordscreen.io some random webservice, the recording is supposedly done in the browser. Proprietary.