Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

First of all, LWN is almost per definition not a forum where end users congregate. Second, I assume Lennart is talking about users in the "early-adopter" category of which developers are implicitly a part and not necessarily someones tech-averse grandmother?

I also happen to think that Lennart is correct in taking the longer view that btfrs needs to be included gradually in the ecosystem if it is ever to become a mature, trusted, default Linux FS.

There will be bumps in the road, sure, that's a given. But Lennart's point that he wants to ease the pain by starting off with storing non-essential data (in the easily replaceable sense) in btfrs while this process is onging, is IMHO both sound and valid.

Others may see it differently, of course.