What’s the difference? No matter how hard I look, most of their websites just consist of them advertising that they are immutable.

  • Zeddex@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Yeah this I don’t understand. I do use immutable distros and quite like them(Bazzite/Aurora/Kinoite) but I would never recommend them to a new user to Linux. They just work too differently than most other distros so like 90% of the documentation you might find for other programs is pretty much useless. Like if you look up some piece of software and it says use your package manager to install, then what? It’s usually easy enough to solve if you read the distro’s docs and use their recommended approach(flatpak, brew, AppImage etc) but that’s already probably way too advanced for someone new too Linux.

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      3 hours ago

      I think half the reason immutable distros started being recommended to people is the fallout after LTT’s Linux challenge. I noticed some people presenting immutable distros as the solution to prevent things like accidentally removing the desktop.