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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] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

…and people never name guix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I completely forgot about Guix. I definitely want to try it out at some point, but for some reason I feel like it will be more complicated than Nix and it will lack features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven’t used immutables yet, but from what I’ve heard, guix is architecturally extremely similar to nix

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

It's similar to Nix in the sense that it's declarative and can entirely configured in a single config file, but I think the Nix implementation of this concept might be better. Have to try out Guix though.