I recently took up Bazzite from mint and I love it! After using it for a few days I found out it was an immutable distro, after looking into what that is I thought it was a great idea. I love the idea of getting a fresh image for every update, I think for businesses/ less tech savvy people it adds another layer of protection from self harm because you can’t mess with the root without extra steps.

For anyone who isn’t familiar with immutable distros I attached a picture of mutable vs immutable, I don’t want to describe it because I am still learning.

My question is: what does the community think of it?

Do the downsides outweigh the benefits or vice versa?

Could this help Linux reach more mainstream audiences?

Any other input would be appreciated!

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    11 day ago

    I don’t have any pics cause I’m not currently near my computer that runs bazzite.

    If you’re mainly using GUI apps you’ll probably just be installing everything through flatpak, which you can use via the Discover store that comes with KDE Plasma. CLI apps are installed using homebrew.

    The docs might give you some insight on using it: https://docs.bazzite.gg/

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      11 day ago

      Noooooo! I’ll install it on VM

      If you’re mainly using GUI apps you’ll probably just be installing everything through flatpak, which you can use via the Discover store that comes with KDE Plasma. CLI apps are installed using homebrew.

      99% of the times on KDE neon I install using deb files and dpkg