Timeshift, to a dedicated partition, is the first thing I install and configure if not installed by default by the distro

Do you always tell people that you use it? If not that may be what you are doing wrong

I live in Linux ( mint) and have had two bork events recently (and many over the years, since the 90’s). Thankfully nothing that timeshift couldn’t solve, but they do happen. That’s why people are getting hard-ons about immutable distros.

Also, a larger capacity one is better, and it’s likely you’ll find a secondhand one with more capacity/features for a similar price.

Would have stayed UP there a few more weeks if they had made it available down under.

FTFY