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!
Feel like elaborating? I've been running it for a couple weeks and very happy so far. One nice little feature was how I can just scroll on top of the little sun icon in the taskbar and my monitors dim and brighten. But that's prolly a Plasma thing more than anything else.
One thing I really like about Bazzite (compared to EndeavourOS which I ran before), is that it just works for gaming. Lots of little tweaks and stuff to get certain qol things working in EOS, are just installed and configured by default in Bazzite.
The stability is super impressive... I used to rely on TimeShift on EOS to roll back when I broke shit (which was over and over, because that's how I learn), and while it's trivial to rollback on Bazzite, I've never even been close to needing to. It's just hard to break (and if you do, just reboot it and everything is fine).
It's definitely more user friendly, but I wouldn't say immutable like Bazzite is only for non-tech people.
Thanks for the info! So far I've been enjoying those same characteristics. I spend my work day arguing with computers, so I have little patience for doing more of it when I'm off (more seriously, I carefully marshall my tech efforts outside of work as a long-term strategy against burnout). I appreciate how "out of the box" gaming (and anything else I've tried) works in Bazzite, and the stability has been great too. Though to be fair, def helps that it's my first experience with Plasma which really makes the "feeling" of the OS pop, in an unfair way lol.
Plasma is awesome! The customizability is just off the charts.
Yesterday I powered up my older laptop (running EndeavourOS) after not starting it up in several months. Had to install the updates in chunks because there were just too many, and the dependency situation was a nightmare... Anyway, got it all updated.
and then next thing I know, I look at the clock and like 3 hours passed. I had been tinkering with shit, completely unnecessarily, for hours without realizing it. I don't think I really accomplished anything, and in fact may have left it worse off than it was before I turned it on lol.
So yeah, TONS of time saved using Bazzite, but there is that level of tinkering that I do miss at times (DistroBox can help with some things). I don't even know if I'd say it's something I "enjoy," per-se... It just tickles my brain in a certain way that I don't get elsewhere?
I use plasma and had no idea this was a thing. Thank you
My new measure for intuitiveness of an interface - do half-drunk, clumsy fumblings with a mouse occasionally reveal a slick new feature I wasn't aware of?
That's indeed a Plasma thing
I had to turn it off (which is easy in plasma) because I have two different monitors and they have different brightness, so it was either first one insanely bright to other one being normal or first being normal to second barely dim.