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Opinions on immutable distros (self.linux)

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

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Hey! I’m currently on Fedora Workstation and I’m getting bored. Nothing in particular. I’ve heard about immutable distros and I’m thinking about Fedora Kinoite. The idea is interesting but idk if it’s worth it. CPU and GPU are AMD. Mostly used for gaming.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I didn’t enjoy tinkering, I would use one of the immutable distros, or at least the Fedora versions.

I personally don’t like that they feel like Android or Chrome OS, but I know that is also the draw to them for others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can still tinker!

NixOS is pretty complicated, but in my eyes the next-gen Arch.

And Silverblue is still be able to be tinkered with.

See, on immutable systems, you don't change the system itself, but the next image.
Similar to PDFs: you shouldn't change the PDF, but the original document and then export the PDF again. PDFs aren't bad, but they aren't designed to be edited, and that's their pro.

And with Project uBlue you can create custom images how you want.
You like Hyprland? There's an image exactly with that! You see what I mean :)