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Immutable Operating Systems: Yay or Nay? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by simple to c/[email protected]

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I've seen a lot of talks on the benefits of immutable distros (specifically Fedora Silverblue) but it always seemed to me as more of a hassle. Has anyone here been daily driving an immutable distro? Would you say it's worth the effort of getting into?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it's nice to see someone who actually used it not go in the speech script throwing "deterministic" and "declarative" every sentences without ever giving a sensible use case

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Heh, yeah... don't get me wrong, I think that immutable distros have an attractive appeal to them the way that they're often sold - however in my experience its been very rare to come across anything that comes with significant improvements yet doesn't have any trade-offs or a "price to pay" especially when it comes to computing and software.

Do I think the rough parts will shrink over time? Potentially. I mean, macOS has been basically doing this for quite a few years now with its "System Integrity Protection" and it seems to do fine... but at the same time, aside from homebrew shenanigans I never really needed to modify things outside of /Users and /Applications when I used macOS.

I certainly would like to hear more experiences about these distros that aren't just evangelizing immutability and mention more about their pain points like I did.