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?

  • RoboticMask@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The only immutable “distro” I use is SteamOS on the Steam deck, and already knowing that I will have to re-install networkmanager-openvpn annoys me.

    • Bloodbeech Forest
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      1 year ago

      The problem there is you not having the ability to change the configuration of the system image. Not the immutability.

    • pezhore@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I put together an Ansible playbook to “recover” from SteamOS updates. I use mine for gaming and some software development, and trying to get back Arch packages would be a huge pain without my playbook.