Still no HDMI or any other external display?
Still no HDMI or any other external display?
Are other subvolumes of those volumes mounted somewhere else, with other btrfs options? The btrfs options, including compress, are not applicable per subvolume.
I would just set it up with normal KDE with autologin and have the home directory deleted and recreated at boot.
Should they mess up anything, just tell them to reboot
Of course.
Two decades.
Yes, OP, this is the way. And if you cannot do this on this laptop, do the installation on another and use the resulting USB drive.