Decided to roll with Opensuse Tumbleweed a while back which preconfigures snapper for you. Never used it or touched it before.
Did something stupid and bricked my install and could not figure out what was wrong. Saw I could boot to a snapshot, so I gave it a go. It worked and I restored it.
I will never go back. I’m sure this has been around for ages but this was a game changer for me. I’m so used to the old model of manual backups.
I started using aeon, which comes with a specially-configured snapper integrated with systemd and the package manager, a while ago. it’s so nice to have a system that does automatic updates, has automatic rollback, and cannot be broken by using it like a normal user.
it’s not completely stable yet, but what’s there is really cool. heads up if you want to try it that it’s made to be the only os on your machine and so will wipe all partitions on the drive you install it on.