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5 reasons to switch to an immutable Linux distro today - and which to try first (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Apparently it's supposed to be harder to bork than regular distros.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    But, really, how frequently a normal user borks their system?

    I've been using Linux for since 2004 and I can't remember the last time (if any) that I irrecoverably borked the system.

    I use arch, mint and Fedora. Repositories in those three are solid.

    Yes, immutable systems have their uses. Mostly entreprise uses but for home? Only out of curiosity.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I feel the same way. Like yes, everyone has screwed around and found out but to the point that we need to be like "I will NOT touch anything in the filesystem other than home"? Seems a little bit overkill to me. Would like to hear from someone who uses one to see what their reasons are, because if its just "i dont like cleaning up installation files" i'm not on board.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I would always recommend against normal users from straying away from the most beaten path. These more technical appealing distros are for advanced users that have specific purpose and use cases in mind. Yeah, in particular, users that adjust their environment frequently (maybe for software development purposes), and want to ensure system stability at the same time.

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