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Immutable Distro Opinions (www.linuxfordevices.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Kroxx@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I recently took up Bazzite from mint and I love it! After using it for a few days I found out it was an immutable distro, after looking into what that is I thought it was a great idea. I love the idea of getting a fresh image for every update, I think for businesses/ less tech savvy people it adds another layer of protection from self harm because you can't mess with the root without extra steps.

For anyone who isn't familiar with immutable distros I attached a picture of mutable vs immutable, I don't want to describe it because I am still learning.

My question is: what does the community think of it?

Do the downsides outweigh the benefits or vice versa?

Could this help Linux reach more mainstream audiences?

Any other input would be appreciated!

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[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago

I have a really hard time getting Aurora working the way all my other Linux devices so that are running some form of Ubuntu (Mate or Bodhi). With that said, it's been very stable and i like not being interrupted with packages to install while working on things...

Mixed bag review. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.

[–] gingernate@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

I don't work in tech but I love to tinker , have a home lab etc. I love using Linux for this, been on Linux for close to 20 years.

Got a steam deck little over a year ago, it was my first immutable

I just moved to an immutable silver blue. Been loving it so far. There's a few things I have issues with, but it's "just works". I still distro hop and fuck around breaking my system for fun from time to time, hahahah. But having my main system on immutable has been great.

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Could you share some pics (without anything private ofc) of bazzite? I wanted to try it but I couldn't use it as live distro. My main problem is arch because I'm used to apt and I find pacman or whatever it uses difficult for me (nothing I can't learn ofc)

I love the idea of getting a fresh image for every update

What do you mean? Thanks

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[–] kylo@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Has anyone had good success with setting up a development environment in an immutable distro? I love the entire concept because it fits with a lot of my other software preferences, but the tools for containerized dev environments felt frustrating.

Like, what do you do for your editor? vscode + devcontainers feel like the best option, but it's rough when I need other IDEs (like I use some of the Jetbrains products). Stuff like toolbox works well too, but to get an editor in that, you have to install it in each one, or make a container that has it built in.

Otherwise, I'll stick with plain Fedora — I use flatpaks for all of my apps anyways (except my editor)

[–] asap@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I use Jetbrains, devcontainers, and distrobox on Bluefin-DX and it has been flawless out of the box. There's a single command to install the Jetbrains toolbox, which let's you then manage all their apps.

Couldn't recommend it enough, made my development lifecycle so easy.

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[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

i started learning rust with nixos, you can declare a shell.nix with everything needed for the environment, and those things will only be available in that folder.

there are caveats and annoyances to this like building a python environment costed me some time, because python packages sometimes require compling and all the shared libraries in nix are not in the right path (because you can have multiple versions installed) so you need to set some env vars to patch this.

nothing that gpt cannot solve.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I do my main development with Bazzite. I use the Neovim flatpak for my editor and toolbox for builds and such.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Running cli apps like neo vim from a flatpak is frustrating... "flatpak run com.something.neovim" is just the worst way to handle things. Complete deal breaker.

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[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Bazzite is great. I was using Nobara before it, and Solus before that and Bazzite has been the best experience I ever had on Linux, I don't plan on changing distros as long as it remains a thing.

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