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Experiences using immutable Linux desktops?

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I am playing around with Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE Aeon and I really like the painless updates.

Still, my daily driver for some years now is Debian, and I have a decent setup via Ansible - everything just works for me.

My question is mostly to long term Linux users, which use Linux in a professional context and jumped from a distribution like Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE or Debian to NixOS, Silverblue, Aeon etc.

What is your experience? How did your workflows change on your immutable Linux distribution? Did you try immutable and went back to a more traditional distribution - why? How long are you running the immutable distribution and what issues and perks did you run into?

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ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz
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Silverblue works fine for me but I miss gparted

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rayon@lemm.ee
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What’s the problem with it? (legit question from non-silverblue user)

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ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz
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there’s no flatpak

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snake@lemmy.world
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Knowing such basic tools are missing makes me quite averse to trying it :/

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Vojtěch Fošnár@beehaw.org
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you can always just overlay that ;)

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