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Hey! I’m currently on Fedora Workstation and I’m getting bored. Nothing in particular. I’ve heard about immutable distros and I’m thinking about Fedora Kinoite. The idea is interesting but idk if it’s worth it. CPU and GPU are AMD. Mostly used for gaming.

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[+] mintycactus 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is what I have been doing for years on my Synology box.

Just a handful of Synology apps (mostly backup and snapshot apps) and all the rest of the ecosystem running in Docker. So the main system is bloatfree.

On Linux desktop, mostly flatpaks installations.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's absolutely not true.
Immutable systems aren't just "normal systems you can't change", no, they're more.

They're image based. So, every OS is the same, giving you better reproducibility, resulting in less bugs, better security and a "fresh" OS after every update.
Your OS accumulates stuff over every update and by just using it over time, and having an image based OS is just better.

Immutability has so much more advantages than just keeping the host clean. It has some disadvantages, yes, but for most people out there, way more advantages!