The Curse of Soldered RAM(blog.hardill.me.uk)
93 points by gsky | 98 comments
Blog post on diagnosing faulty soldered RAM in a Lenovo X1 Carbon with Memtest86+ and working around it via the Linux memmap kernel parameter on Fedora.
#btrfs on Hacker News
6 stories tagged btrfs, newest first.
2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)
767 points by todsacerdoti | 572 comments
Xe Iaso's blog note announcing a switch from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux as their main desktop OS in 2026, criticizing Microsoft's recent Windows changes.
Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs(github.com)
381 points by Sami_Lehtinen | 156 comments
GitHub repository for ntfs2btrfs, a GPL-2.0 tool that converts an NTFS filesystem to Btrfs in place.
Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux(github.com)
325 points by gballan | 154 comments
GitHub repository for Timeshift, a Linux system restore tool that creates filesystem snapshots using rsync with hardlinks or BTRFS snapshots.
Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP(copyninja.in)
420 points by pabs3 | 157 comments
A blog post describing how to clone an old laptop's encrypted disk to a new laptop by exporting it over NVMe/TCP, then resizing the partition, LUKS, and BTRFS.
Windows on Btrfs(lilysthings.org)
456 points by susam | 206 comments
A personal blog post describing installing and booting Windows from a btrfs filesystem using the WinBtrfs driver and the open source Quibble bootloader.