I am playing around with Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE Aeon and I really like the painless updates.

Still, my daily driver for some years now is Debian, and I have a decent setup via Ansible - everything just works for me.

My question is mostly to long term Linux users, which use Linux in a professional context and jumped from a distribution like Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE or Debian to NixOS, Silverblue, Aeon etc.

What is your experience? How did your workflows change on your immutable Linux distribution? Did you try immutable and went back to a more traditional distribution - why? How long are you running the immutable distribution and what issues and perks did you run into?

  • mana@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’m running bazzite (custom image based on Fedora Kinoite) on both my desktop and Steam deck. I’ve also used NixOS on my laptop.

    I really think this new approach is the path forward for Linux. I’ve been a Linux user for at least 15 years, both for servers and workstations, and the peace of mind that comes with knowing I can rebase to an earlier version or even deploy my system to other machines is wonderful, all while enjoying mostly the latest packages.

    I’ll still be using Arch though for anything with hardware that’s not widely supported.

    • wolfOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Nice, thanks for the pointer to bazzite, looks like the perfect candidate for the next OS on my home entertainment system!