[sandreas]

While I like the article, I much prefer ZFS by now.

With CachyOS having ZFS in the installer, you can just natively encrypt your setup with an officially maintained project, USB drives are usable too.

After this you can use zrepl to autosnapshot and sync your ZFS either remotely via SSH or on USB with a few simple shell commands vor even use manual zfs snapshot / zfs send.

If something breaks syncing back also works flawlessly.

I personally also use ZFSBootMenu which lets you clone an old snapshot if e.g. the kernel breaks and having a separate dataset for /home lets you keep your documents if required.

I'm not going back to luks/btrfs/ext4 anytime soon...

[akimbostrawman]

Openzfs and ZFSBootMenu has been my personal single greatest additions to linux. I would switch to BSD before i would use linux again without a competent bootmanager and filesystem.