rolling-rhino VS TimeShift

Well there is a community project called Rolling Rhino that converts Ubuntu to a rolling release by activating the devel repos and a bit shenanigans. Look here I haven't tested it but maybe this a nice alternative

Where you are right is that, its not an official ubuntu project as far as I know (I believe it was a side project by Ubuntu Desktop's lead developer), but it was a thing before these guys, installable in a simila way as Debian Unstable is (install the nightly image and manually edit the sources.list or use the 'rolling rhino' script).

But then, since before the 20.04 release, I just YOLO it and always update to the latest dev branch on my daily driver, a la Rolling Rhino.

Personally I think of Fedora & Ubuntu (non-LTS cycle) as pretty equal; though Fedora gives you maybe 6-13 months before you need to release-upgrade which is longer than the 6-9 months of Ubuntu (that's the benefit of Fedora to me; though I prefer Debian/Ubuntu still myself). No one distribution is always ahead of the others, but it's rarely Fedora in my view, though I'm not including Fedora rawhide though as my Fedora install is rarely on that; my OpenSuSE tumbleweed box is usually used if I need a system that is equal or further ahead of my Ubuntu/Debian system... I'm involved with a flavor so if I've found a bug, I use the other systems to confirm the bug before filing upstream.. Other systems I use are Fedora (version varies), OpenSuSE tumbleweed & Debian testing. Debian testing is actually behind my current Ubuntu flavor & has been awhile.. but that'll change as I watch new packages enter Sid... My Ubuntu system sits on the development cycle.. so if you want the most up-to-date Ubuntu system, don't forget you can use development (currently jammy), or use rolling rhino. Yes of course they're not stable so problems may occur (and I'd always ensure you have a replacement system ready to use... hey I've got my Debian testing, my opensuse, my fedora, etc ; and this system is dual boot anyway; my other install being a rarely used Ubuntu focal/20.04).

Ubuntu does have rolling rhino if sitting on the development cycle (currently jammy) isn't enough for you.

I was giving this some thought the other day. I think the LTS release cycle is perfect for the average user. I wonder if the development releases could be replaced with a rolling release? I don't use the development releases, but I'd imagine it's tedious to perform an upgrade every six months. I'd imagine it would be easier for those users if Canonical released a mature implementation of something like Rolling Rhino.

Martin Wimpress’ Rolling Rhino project has a bit more info.

The previous developer of timeshift—Tony George (GitHub) — has been the developer since 2017 (based on GitHub version history), and has recently handed off development to the Linux Mint team.

I use both timeshift & duplicity

Don't believe me or u/acejavelin69 - read what the developer has to say about user data and why it is disabled by default. https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift

Version v22.06.6 Latest

The original dev used ubuntu and only wanted to support the default ubuntu layout: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift/issues/821

What system backup software can you recommend? In the past on Ubuntu I tested Timeshift, and it looks really cool. But the "main problem" is thing, that some options not work in Fedora: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift, specifically BTRFS. What does it mean, this is a problem?

- [Timeshift](https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift) or [Deja Dup](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup) and back-up everything.

What I tried is to add "exclude" : [ "+ /home/user1/**", "+ /root/**", "+ /home/user2/**", ], to /etc/timeshift.json as per this post but the files within those folders still aren't included in the backup.

Releases · teejee2008/timeshift Was fixed. Get PPA from that repo to have the latest release.

Are you sure you need a full on virtual machine, rather than a system snapshotting tool like Snapper or Timeshift?