Butterbian is a Debian 13 (Trixie) installer built around one idea: your system should be snapshotted before anything breaks it. Most distros leave BTRFS and Timeshift as an exercise for the user. Butterbian does it for you — subvolumes laid out correctly, Timeshift configured, grub-btrfs wired in, so you can roll back from GRUB if it all goes sideways.Besides Butterbian, the project also develops Butterknife, a command-line only live image with a text-mode system installer that provides more choices in terms of filesystems and window managers.

Part of the justaguylinux butter* ecosystem — alongside butterscripts, butternotes, buttertodo, and butterbash. butterrepo is available as a companion APT repository, providing Ghostty, Neovim, rofi 2.0, Zen Browser, and more.

Get Balena Etcher for Windows/Mac/Linux to create bootable USB Stick here:

https://etcher.balena.io/#download-etcher

Visit the Butterbian website here

https://butterbian.org/

Support the Butterbian website here:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/justaguylinux