I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I’m choosing a distro to hop to.
My question is: what are good immutable distros other than Fedora Silverblue spins, UBlue family and NixOS?
Maybe someone uses/used any? What is/was your experience with it?

  • @[email protected]
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    75 months ago

    I think about it like this:

    Layer 2b: ->> User applications (flatpak, nixpkgs, etc.)
    
    Layer 2a: ->> User data (mutable, persistent no matter what your system layer is)
    
    Layer 1: -> System (immutable/read-only/updated "atomically" meaning all at once) 
    
    Layer 0: Hardware
    

    Or, alternately, it’s what macos has been doing with absolutely no fanfare for several versions now. That’s not a knock, btw. It’s an illustration that it can be completely transparent in use, though it may require some habit changes on linux.

    • Kangy
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      15 months ago

      I see, that makes sense. Thank you!