Automatic btrfs snapshots and rollbacks using snapper

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Besides exploring how Fedora 36 uses a btrfs filesystem, we have gone a long way in understanding how to create snapshots and how to boot from a past snapshot using grub-btrfs. One last thing is missing from the whole setup: a way to automatically create snapshots every time we install new software or every time we upgrade our existing Linux install. So we will explore this today by setting up…