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Patroncast S04E04 - Are immutable distros inevitable?

🕑 Added 2024-01-22 12:37:43 +0000 UTC

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The Linux Experiment

Oh yeah, that's a great advantage of containers / containerized applications, they make "older" distros much more viable for a lot of people. They're still unsuitable for really recent hardware, but for everyone else, there's no barrier

The Linux Experiment

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Steve Thomas

I agree that there are many advantages long term for the increased use of immutable distros as the standard. I am currently running LMDE 6 as my daily driver. As you know, that Debian base has always dissuaded me since it tends to become pretty stale over time. But by supplementing it with Flatpaks, Snaps and AppImages it becomes pretty easy to live with long term. Very similar to the immutable approach. However, I find that the "lifeline" for this set up becomes DistroBox. Even if an app isn't available in one of the popular containers, it is super simple to whip up a version in DB that is current and fully integrated with my desktop. I believe that if immutability is to become common place, some tool along the lines of DistroBox becomes inevitable to fill the missing gaps.