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This is annoying, but better now than after I get settled in.
Do you know anything I might've done to cause this? I don't wanna do whatever it was again.
when you reinstall, try to use btrfs (idk if kde neon support it in the installer)
then use timeshift to do a snapshot every day and a snapshot before upgrade. but set it up so that there are not more than ~10 snapshots.
next time something goes wrong you can restore the last snapshot.
Some distros also set it so you have previous snapshots as boot entries in grub.
It was an option, but I was planning on trying a couple different distros, and I know ext4 has better compatibility, and didn't want to format the whole drive back and forth, or have multiple systems at once time on different partitions. Once I settle permanently if it is an option I've heard some say it's better, but haven't looked into it yet.
Edit: just realized this sounds a little consider to the other comment.
What I mean to say is at least it was before I installed any programs and got to try it out. Based on another comment, I now know this is a rolling release which is not something I'm interested in anyway.