What's up with all these immutable distributions? What are the benefits and disadvantages of them? - eviltoast

For once I feel a little out of touch after I took a bit of a break from following the news to focus on studying, and suddenly everyone is talking about immutable distributions. What are they exactly? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of immutable systems?

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I worked at the big cloud guys, I get the point.

    But this isn’t a cloud host, this is a workstation that I’m happily tinkering with, I enjoy bending and breaking the os for fun and development.

    My data is usually not on the workstation, so clearly it out is no real loss, and I get to experiment more.