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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Governance leaves a lot to be desired.

Genuine question from somebody who's out of the loop and doesn't use NixOS: How does this affect your day to day using the distro?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Basically you hemorrhage contributors because fuck this shit and then core components get more and more behind.