It was all new to me so I talked it through with my group of friends, who were all quite diehard GNU/Linux people, and they mentioned about this filesystem called BTRFS. I'd kept with the safe option of EXT4 with the Yoga, but as I was planning the install on my XPS, which I knew would be more of a long-term device, I had the opportunity to spend a bit more time researching options around the filesystems, disk partitioning schemes, package managers, and all sorts of other choices you wouldn't normally care about. Before that, while I was on placement at Intel, I had been using a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga Pro 2 which started with Ubuntu, but I migrated to Arch after spending too much time on /r/UnixPorn (Safe for Work).

I started using BTRFS when I got my Dell XPS 13 (9343), and the process of installing Arch Linux on it. The announcement that Dropbox were dropping support for any non-ext4 filesystems started me thinking about my usage of BTRFS, and realise that it actually wasn't as important to my life as I thought. Note: Before I continue, I would like to call out the fact that the decision is not to do with anything wrong with BTRFS - I've had a great, stable, time with it, and the reason I'm moving is due to my misuse of it. However, I'm looking to retire my usage and replace it with a more boring filesystem. I've been happily using BTRFS as my main filesystem for almost 3 years.

Does dropbox support btrfs