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I don't understand why people want immutable. I don't know all that much about Linux but on my Steamdeck it keeps getting in the way anytime I try to do anything
Immutable is fantastic in theory. Where it falls apart is having to basically rebuild the whole distro every time you want to make a change. It should be there your base distro is immutable, then any extra changes go on an additional mutable layer but that would be difficult to set up. (You'd need a package manager like Nixos or something.)
That is exactly how OsTree and other layering solutions work. Only Nix requires a whole distro rebuild.
And even then with
nixos-rebuild switchyou won't really notice that you're "rebuilding" anything