I recently took up Bazzite from mint and I love it! After using it for a few days I found out it was an immutable distro, after looking into what that is I thought it was a great idea. I love the idea of getting a fresh image for every update, I think for businesses/ less tech savvy people it adds another layer of protection from self harm because you can't mess with the root without extra steps.
For anyone who isn't familiar with immutable distros I attached a picture of mutable vs immutable, I don't want to describe it because I am still learning.
My question is: what does the community think of it?
Do the downsides outweigh the benefits or vice versa?
Could this help Linux reach more mainstream audiences?
Any other input would be appreciated!
I used an immutable fedora on my surface pro 4, I wanted to shoot myself in the face every time I had to install anything. I'm good on that for the rest of my natural life.
Was what you wanted not available in a flatpack/ app image?
Wasn't about that at all. Any DNF action took a lightyear... man just typing out those long commands (very hard to remember coming from apt) nevermind the much crazier wait time. Using toolbox for dev environments to compile things was a total nightmare. I'm sure there's a scenario where it's ideal, that was certainly not my situation.
Gotcha I was just wondering what the limitations are, I'm still messing with and I've not hit one yet but I was curious where they pop up. So for devs immutable distros don't play well, that definitely makes sense!
From what I gather, if you like tinkering and compiling and installing random weird apps then immutable can be a serious pain in the ass like I discovered.
Did you ever try using Distrobox? That's the recommended way if installing random apps.
I'm not sure that would've influenced my situation with a dual core i5-6300U and 4gb ram, it's a pretty sluggish thing from the get go. But good to know about distrobox maybe that can help me in the future. Now rocking Debian and it's great.
Debian sounds like a great fit for you. But it's good to know that Universal Blue has a lot of tools available for installing and tinkering that many just don't know about. They are extremely powerful OSs.