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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] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Bazzite! It’s technically atomic and not fully immutable but I’ve been using it for about a week now (long time I know) and everything just works. Didn’t need to install any extra drivers to get it working with all my peripherals. I like it a lot. Fixed a lot of Wayland issues I was having on previous Ubuntu installs.

One feature I found really cool is the Waydroid and Boxbuddy integration. You can have Android apps installed alongside regular fedora apps. Just opens an Android emulator in the background. Discovered that last night by accident. Typed in “calculator” and it opened up the Android version of it. Really neat!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Bazzite is cool, but it is part of UBlue family, which I excluded in my post. I'm not a huge fan of Fedora, no offense to anyone using it, tho!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ah my bad. Your post says “other that” instead of “other than” so I misread it as I skimmed 😛

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