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Thank you for your reply, although I have different experience/use cases.
For example, I have an old laptop as a dedicated multimedia machine. An immutable desktop is the far better option for me, as an end user. Everything works OOTB and updates happen silently on reboots.
The same is true for a lot of people which only need a browser, IMHO.
No orchestration or proprietary repository needed.
Any distro with BTRFS works for your use case and will be easier to deal with.
Yes, but guess what happens whenever people popularize immutable distros as the next hype in tech that will make everything better? You get yourself into a totally unreasonable and avoidable ecosystem just because those systems won't cut it for most use cases.... same that happened with Docker/Kubernetes.