Some feedback

[eccles]

I used the Pop 22.04 installation guide successfully. Thanks for this - its great work.

I thought I might give some feedback...

/dev/sda3 is used as arguments to some of the commands. Most will have an nvme drive I think so mentioning alternatives would be helpful such as dev/nvme0n1 or dev/nvme1n1

docker gave me errors about cgroup mount point not being present. I had to turn off cgroupv2 by adding systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=false to /etc/kernelstub/configuration and rebuilding the initramfs.

I installed on an additional SSD without removing the first SSD with a view to copying my home directory. If this is done one must remember to 'vgrename' the volume group on the old SSD otherwise a luksOpen raises an error.

Having 2 SSDs confuses timeshift - it gets the 2 SSDs mixed up so I have turned timeshift off for the moment. Disabling qgroups in timeshift did not appear to work.

And lastly a real zinger. On reboot I did a 'docker system prune -f' and this caused my laptop to be completely unusable - the desktop froze for long periods and only came back intermittently. This condition lasted over an hour before rebooting only to resume on reboot. I managed to solve it by turning off qgroups - 'btrfs qgroup disable /'. This is a known problem with btrfs and adding that command to your procedure would be helpful.

Additionally installing the btrfsmaintenance package is useful to setup weekly trim and possibly scrub/defrag if needed (not needed on my system)

Again thanks for article - I could not have done it without...

[eccles]

Additional comments:

timeshift does not work as it reports that the disk does not have btrfs filesystem. I removed it and am investigating using snapper - this appears to require lots of subvolumes so I may not bother.

lastly the latest Pop uses zram for swap so the encrypted swap partition may not be needed.

[wmutschl]

Many thanks for your feedback and insights. I plan to clean install the server once POP!_OS 2024.04 releases and will then also update the guide.

[pquerner]

Regarding docker: maybe mounting /var/lib/docker somewhere outside is the way to go, as described in this bug ticket: docker/for-linux#78

Just followed your video tutorial and read the blog entry for 22.04.
If one were to use 22.04 for now - and then make the jump to 24.04 once its released by the Pop OS team - how would that upgrade look like? Does it cover/update the recovery partition aswell?

Or (bonus): if one were to use 22.04 now (following the guide of yours) but then makes a switch to some other Linux Distro. Could you take your @home with you in that case?