What are the pros and cons for desktops ? EDIT : Thanks all. I’ll try Silverblue, bazzite and more.

  • Communist
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    4 months ago

    If you’re using gnome/kde, I see no reason not to run immutable, the advantages of not being immutable are that you can piece together your system, if you’re running i3/sway/whatever, being able to choose your panel, your launcher, etc actually has value.

    The advantages of immutable are that you’ll never end up with a broken system, you can easily roll back to a not broken one if something does break, and the system is separate from your apps.

    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      I was able to break fedora silverblue by messing file permissions in the home directory. Toolbx then stopped working, without which the distro is unusable.

      You can also make chaneges in /etc and similarly ruin your system.

      Just saying they aren’t quite as “unbreakable” as advertised.

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        4 months ago

        all changes in etc are snapshotted with each update so you could just roll back to your previous version and it would fix it.

        I assume you meant you messed up permissions in your home directory, and yes that is pretty much the only place you can permanently mess something up with silverblue.