Willi Mutschler

Software Developer
Tech Blogger & YouTuber
Open-Source Enthusiast

About me

I am an enthusiastic Apple 🍏 and Linux 🐧 user and actively contribute to several open-source projects 🤓 such as Dynare, Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt. You can find 🔍 me on several forums #️⃣ like Ask Fedora, Dynare, Destination Linux, EndeavourOS, Pop!_Planet or Ubuntu.

The source code 📜 of the entire site is available on GitHub; getting involved 👋 by opening issues or pull-request 🧑‍💻 is greatly appreciated 🙏.

Supporting the creation of blog posts and videos is greatly appreciated.

Feel free to contact 🗣️ me directly.

Topic Cloud

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Recent Apple related posts

macOS: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)
In the following I will go through my post installation steps on macOS Ventura, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps I install and use.
Last updated on Mar 30, 2023
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Recent Linux related posts

elementary OS: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)
In the following I will go through my post installation steps on elementary OS, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps I install and use.
Last updated on Jun 17, 2022
elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir: installation guide with btrfs, luks encryption and auto snapshots with timeshift
In this guide I will walk you through the installation steps to get an elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir system with a luks-encrypted partition which contains a LVM logical volume for the root filesystem that is formatted with btrfs and contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to setup an encrypted swap partition which works with hibernation. This layout enables one to use timeshift which will regularly take snapshots of the system and (optionally) on any apt operation.
Last updated on Sep 12, 2022
Pop!_OS 22.04: installation guide with btrfs, luks encryption and auto snapshots with timeshift
In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get a Pop!_OS 22.04 system with a luks-encrypted partition which contains a LVM with a logical volume for the root filesystem that is formatted with btrfs and contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to setup an encrypted swap partition which works with hibernation. This layout enables one to use timeshift which will regularly take snapshots of the system and (optionally) on any apt operation. The recovery system of Pop!_OS is also installed to the disk and accessible via the systemd bootloader.
Last updated on Jul 14, 2023
Pop!_OS: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)
In the following I will go through my post installation steps on Pop!_OS, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps I install and use.
Last updated on Jun 17, 2022
Fedora Workstation: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)
In the following I will go through my post installation steps on Fedora, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps I install and use.
Last updated on Nov 22, 2022
Fedora Workstation 35 with automatic btrfs snapshots and backups using BTRBK
In this guide I will show how to install Fedora 35 with automatic system snapshots and backups using BTRBK which will regularly take (almost instant) btrfs snapshots of the system and send/receive these to a backup disk given a chosen retention policy.
Last updated on Jun 17, 2022
DRAFT: Pop!_OS 21.10: installation guide with btrfs-LVM-luks and auto snapshots with BTRBK
In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get a Pop!_OS 21.10 system with a luks-encrypted partition which contains a LVM with a logical volume for the root filesystem that is formatted with btrfs and contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to setup an encrypted swap partition which works with hibernation. This layout enables one to use BTRBK which will regularly take snapshots of the system and optionally on any apt operation. The recovery system of Pop!_OS is also installed to the disk and accessible via the systemd bootloader.
Last updated on Jun 17, 2022
Pop!_OS 21.04: installation guide with btrfs-LVM-luks and auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift
In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get a Pop!_OS 21.04 system with a luks-encrypted partition which contains a LVM with a logical volume for the root filesystem that is formatted with btrfs and contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to setup an encrypted swap partition which works with hibernation. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any apt operation. The recovery system of Pop!_OS is also installed to the disk and accessible via the systemd bootloader.
Last updated on Aug 14, 2022
Ubuntu Server Raspberry Pi: Things to do after installation (Apps, Settings, and Tweaks)
In the following I will go through my post installation steps, i.e. which settings I choose and which apps and containers I install and use on my Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB)
Last updated on Jun 17, 2022
Ubuntu Server 20.10 on Raspberry Pi 4: installation guide with USB Boot (no SD card) and full disk encryption (excluding /boot) using btrfs-inside-luks and auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift
In this guide I will walk you through the installation procedure to get an Ubuntu 20.10 system with a luks-encrypted partition for the root filesystem (excluding /boot) formatted with btrfs that contains a subvolume @ for / and a subvolume @home for /home running on a Raspberry Pi 4. The system is installed to an external bootable USB drive so no SD card is required. I will show how to optimize the btrfs mount options and how to get a headless server, i.e. remotely unlock the luks partition using Dropbear which enables one to use SSH to decrypt the luks-encrypted partitions after a reboot. This layout enables one to use Timeshift and timeshift-autosnap-apt which will regularly take snapshots of the system and particularly on any apt operation.
Last updated on Jun 17, 2022
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Other stuff

My backup strategy
My strategy to backup Linux, macOS and Windows machines using a combination of Nextcloud, rsync, restic, BTRBK and Time Machine.
Last updated on Jun 17, 2022
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