Love me some Fedora, why should I switch to an immutable version? The thing that gives me pause is I like being able to change my system when I need to and have it persist, which is from what I understand the exact opposite idea of immutables (but I may be misunderstanding, thus this comment asking lol).
It’s not so much that you can’t change parts of your system permanently. Think of it more so like the system partition of the OS is versioned like it’s a git repo. Each time you make a change to the OS filesystem the change is written to a new version of your OS that is layered onto the previous version, and then those changes are commited to the filesystem store, and a new boot entry is created.
So it’s a slightly more involved process to install new/update system packages (you have to reboot into the new version of the OS for the changes to take effect), but you gain a massive advantage in stability as a result (if the new version fails to boot or has other unexpected behavior, just reboot into the old, known working version).
Same, I enjoy the classic shared library and package system which I still feel is superior to flatpak versions in most cases, even ignoring the technical aspects of each.
Tried silverblue once and it just felt more like android to me, and I even found myself using RPM layers almost immediately for core things that dont ship as Flatpak because its infeasible.
Plus Bazzite has its own release schedule which I feel like slightly removes the benefit of Fedora kernels being cutting edge, with critical packages updated almost as fast as Arch.
The good thing though is that it’s much more dummy proof, so I would feel comfortable letting anyone use it with zero experience, whereas I only recommend Fedora to those who have an inherent interest in Linux.
Love me some Fedora, why should I switch to an immutable version? The thing that gives me pause is I like being able to change my system when I need to and have it persist, which is from what I understand the exact opposite idea of immutables (but I may be misunderstanding, thus this comment asking lol).
It’s not so much that you can’t change parts of your system permanently. Think of it more so like the system partition of the OS is versioned like it’s a git repo. Each time you make a change to the OS filesystem the change is written to a new version of your OS that is layered onto the previous version, and then those changes are commited to the filesystem store, and a new boot entry is created.
So it’s a slightly more involved process to install new/update system packages (you have to reboot into the new version of the OS for the changes to take effect), but you gain a massive advantage in stability as a result (if the new version fails to boot or has other unexpected behavior, just reboot into the old, known working version).
Edit: I’m using Bazzite on two devices btw
Same, I enjoy the classic shared library and package system which I still feel is superior to flatpak versions in most cases, even ignoring the technical aspects of each.
Tried silverblue once and it just felt more like android to me, and I even found myself using RPM layers almost immediately for core things that dont ship as Flatpak because its infeasible.
Plus Bazzite has its own release schedule which I feel like slightly removes the benefit of Fedora kernels being cutting edge, with critical packages updated almost as fast as Arch.
The good thing though is that it’s much more dummy proof, so I would feel comfortable letting anyone use it with zero experience, whereas I only recommend Fedora to those who have an inherent interest in Linux.