Hey! I’m currently on Fedora Workstation and I’m getting bored. Nothing in particular. I’ve heard about immutable distros and I’m thinking about Fedora Kinoite. The idea is interesting but idk if it’s worth it. CPU and GPU are AMD. Mostly used for gaming.
I’m sorry but none of the above sound different from a regular distro. Maybe I haven’t got the gist. You can have snapshots and atomic updates on a regular distro, you don’t have to reinstall to switch from Gnome to KDE, I can install all kinds of stuff cleanly anyway thanks to package managers, I don’t use root often so the system files are effectively read-only as far as I’m concerned, and so on.
As far as security is concerned I don’t see the big deal, I mean I get why a read-only OS would in theory be harder to break into but it can still be modified for updates so I guess it’s not really “immutable” after all.
What am I missing?
Edit: before anybody points it out, I do know about the rebase layers and I think it’s an interesting approach, but ultimately still gets the same results as packages. It may be helpful for distro builders but doesn’t make much difference as a user.