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!
Who is mostly pushing these containerized apps?
Proprietary software vendors.
Same for who stands the most to benefit from immutable distros. Like Android and MacOS get shipped.
Flatpak is completely open source software and any proprietary software in it has a large warning about how it’s proprietary. I don’t know why you think proprietary software vendors are pushing these. Ublue, NixOS, and Fedora Silverblue are all community run, not being pushed by some malicious group pushing proprietary software.
Why companies even have anything to gain from their proprietary software being in a container? All that would do is make data collection more difficult.
Why do you think all phone makers push it?
There is literally no arguing with people like you, haha
So, you cannot or will not answer. Got it.