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  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.mlImmutable Distro Opinions
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    2 days ago

    Immutable are the ultimate tinkerer’s distros. It’s just a different way of tinkering. True tinkering in immutable means creating your own image from the base image and that allows you to add or remove packages, change configs, services, etc.

    Example: you create your own image. You decide you want to try something, but you’re being cautious. So you create a new image based on your first with your changes. You try it out and you don’t like it or it doesn’t work for some reason, you can just revert back to you other image.

    Another thing worth mentioning, with these distros, you can switch between images at will. I’m new to Linux as my daily driver desktop OS, and I’ve rebased three times. It’s really cool to be able to do that.


  • You can install packages in immutable distros. It’s just not as easy and recommended as a last resort.

    With Universal Blue (Bazzite, Bluefin, Aurora) you can install packages with “layering”. It’s basically modifying the image by adding packages on top of what is shipped by the distro, and those packages get added each time the image is updated.

    The better, more involved solution is to create your own image from the base image. That gives you a lot more control. You can even remove packages from the base image.


  • Hopefully you’ve had time to read some ify the replies from the folks behind Bazzite.

    I would argue that it’s not bad marketing because no one is marketing it. Universal Blue, and by extension Bazzite, is a purely FOSS, community run endeavor.

    Just because cloud became an over used buzzword by tech vulture capitalists, doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply to what they’re doing, and it doesn’t mean that it’s suspicious.

    Universal Blue is built by good folks making good shit.