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?

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    4 months ago

    As I understand it, it’s read-only, so the updates you get are basically replacing your current ones but keeping your apps (like flatpaks) installed.

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        4 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.