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Didn’t quite follow what you were saying completely. Are you suggesting a new program over time shift or change the file system type like ZFS and Btrfs? I’m using Ubuntu and not sure if I seen those before.
Snapshots are one of the features of copy on write filesystems like ZFS or btrfs.
It looks like Ubuntu has btrfs support, so you could do things like configure the package manager to automatically snapshot before a system upgrade.
https://blackstewie.com/posts/install-ubuntu-24.04-with-proper-btrfs-setup/
That looks like a current guide for setting it up
Thank you for sharing!