Immutable Operating Systems: Yay or Nay?
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?
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In my opinion: Yay for people not tech savy, so they can't bork their system, and it prevent most malware to do damages. Or for special devices, like the Steam Deck!
Nay for thinkerer like me, if I want to uninstall the boot loader, I need the option!!
so they can’t bork their system
not tech savy people: you underestimate my power
It's just a single command you need to copy and paste to make the filesystem mutable so it won't stop a lot of people.
It will stop a lot of people from entering random commands they googled up though.
you build an idiot-proof system, somebody will build a better idiot
I don’t like being essentially locked out of the internals. I can understand a lot of developers don’t have an interest in system administration as long as it works for them.
Yeah that's my feeling on it too. I think an immutable OS would be great for something like an office, where you can have everyone on the exact same setup that's way harder for non-techie people to break, and presumably if something does go wrong then the fix will work for everyone.
But yeah I'm too much of a tinkerer to use one on my personal machine.