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Cake day: January 9th, 2026

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  • I am referring to this part:

    Earlier in February, Valve announced that it had postponed the announcement of pricing and availability for its new Steam Hardware lineup, which includes a new Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame VR headset, due to the same issue.

    “When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now,” the company wrote. “But the memory and storage shortages you’ve likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then.”

    “The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame).”




  • Because Fedora likes to adapt the newest stuff very early. While it’s not like “very early” for BTRFS anymore, its still exceptional unusual to have it as the default in a mainstream distribution. And they want to benefit from the feature set of BTRFS, so it makes sense to use it as the default. Why shouldn’t the mainstream benefit from quick snapshots and backups? I don’t see the argument “are catering to mainstream audience” as to not use BTRFS?


  • I would say, if you want benefit from the features of BTRFS, then go for it. But you have to read a bit what it can do, and use tools and set it up to get the most out of it I think. EXT4 on the other hand is proven and is a setup and forget experience. I chose EXT4 when installing EndeavourOS, because I read a few things about BTRFS that made me think twice and also I don’t need the features too. So, if you don’t know and have to ask the community, then the best would be to us EXT4, unless you know why you want to have BTRFS features.