I’ve seen a lot of talks on the benefits of immutable distros (specifically Fedora Silverblue) but it always seemed to me as more of a hassle. Has anyone here been daily driving an immutable distro? Would you say it’s worth the effort of getting into?
it’s nice to see someone who actually used it not go in the speech script throwing “deterministic” and “declarative” every sentences without ever giving a sensible use case
Heh, yeah… don’t get me wrong, I think that immutable distros have an attractive appeal to them the way that they’re often sold - however in my experience its been very rare to come across anything that comes with significant improvements yet doesn’t have any trade-offs or a “price to pay” especially when it comes to computing and software.
Do I think the rough parts will shrink over time? Potentially. I mean, macOS has been basically doing this for quite a few years now with its “System Integrity Protection” and it seems to do fine… but at the same time, aside from homebrew shenanigans I never really needed to modify things outside of
/Usersand/Applicationswhen I used macOS.I certainly would like to hear more experiences about these distros that aren’t just evangelizing immutability and mention more about their pain points like I did.