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btrfs subvolumes are cool, but I'll still take partitions for separation. The whole point of having a separate home partition is that it's separate from / if we have to, say, reinstall the OS, or the filesystem breaks or whatever.
sure it might be possible to install an OS into a btrfs subvolume without wiping other subvolumes, but do I wanna risk it? Nah.
-- Frost
I have installed an OS onto just the btrfs root subvolume, leaving the home directory intact. This is how I originally swapped from Manjaro to Arch. The arch manual install instructions helped.
But this should be a feature of the graphical installers imo.