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it's nice to see someone who actually used it not go in the speech script throwing "deterministic" and "declarative" every sentences without ever giving a sensible use case
Heh, yeah... don't get me wrong, I think that immutable distros have an attractive appeal to them the way that they're often sold - however in my experience its been very rare to come across anything that comes with significant improvements yet doesn't have any trade-offs or a "price to pay" especially when it comes to computing and software.
Do I think the rough parts will shrink over time? Potentially. I mean, macOS has been basically doing this for quite a few years now with its "System Integrity Protection" and it seems to do fine... but at the same time, aside from homebrew shenanigans I never really needed to modify things outside of
/Usersand/Applicationswhen I used macOS.I certainly would like to hear more experiences about these distros that aren't just evangelizing immutability and mention more about their pain points like I did.