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Dunno man, I’ve had the same model as you for almost 2 years, I’ve always tried to keep my firmware up to date and never had any problems, except at the beginning when there were no drivers for the touchpad in the kernel, and that wasn’t the laptop’s fault
It’s gonna be a hard decision to make. I know that because I read about Btrfs for about a whole week before deciding to switch to it. But, I’m a happy Btrfs user now for about 8 months, and I’ll be honest with you, in my opinion, if your application does not mainly involve small random writes that’ll make Btrfs inevitably fragment a ton, it is most likely good for any situation. I don’t know much about the other modern/advanced filesystems like ZFS or XFS to tell you anything about them though