The immutable desktop is an enterprise solution being pushed by the two largest companies with enterprise contracts (Red Hat/SuSE) who have to meet certain standards for cloud deployment. Kiosks, FIPS, finance, secure government, etc. In fact, it meets a certain use case for a major project I'm assisting at work and we will use Fedora Gnome Atomic.Been reading on this and frankly, I see no use for this for home users or even small businesses.For anyone interested, a link to Silverblue. Frankly, I don't see any advantage for a solo user, but might be convenient for a household or small firm. Bear in mind, container apps mean large updates.
The people who use immutable distributions are almost certainly going to access them through a web browser on their MacBooks.
It's not really intended as a solution for people who would use a baremetal desktop Linux install, or need to edit doas.conf or a hosts file. We are a rounding error.
Statistics: Posted by unix_joe — 2024-05-14 19:31