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Experiences using immutable Linux desktops? (self.linux)

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

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I am playing around with Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE Aeon and I really like the painless updates.

Still, my daily driver for some years now is Debian, and I have a decent setup via Ansible - everything just works for me.

My question is mostly to long term Linux users, which use Linux in a professional context and jumped from a distribution like Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE or Debian to NixOS, Silverblue, Aeon etc.

What is your experience? How did your workflows change on your immutable Linux distribution? Did you try immutable and went back to a more traditional distribution - why? How long are you running the immutable distribution and what issues and perks did you run into?

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[–] wolf 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your reply, although I have different experience/use cases.

For example, I have an old laptop as a dedicated multimedia machine. An immutable desktop is the far better option for me, as an end user. Everything works OOTB and updates happen silently on reboots.

The same is true for a lot of people which only need a browser, IMHO.

No orchestration or proprietary repository needed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Any distro with BTRFS works for your use case and will be easier to deal with.

No orchestration or proprietary repository needed.

Yes, but guess what happens whenever people popularize immutable distros as the next hype in tech that will make everything better? You get yourself into a totally unreasonable and avoidable ecosystem just because those systems won't cut it for most use cases.... same that happened with Docker/Kubernetes.