I've talked myself into taking another swing at immutable Linux distros.
Arkane and Vanilla isos downloading. Time to spin up some VMs.
Discussion
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I'm grateful that I've successfully talked myself OUT of this every time the urge creeps up.
I wish you luck and look forward to your updates. (don't die)
VM only for now, it would take an extra special level of stupid to cause breakage that mattered.
Godspeed friend, ill stick with arch.
Arkane is Arch but immutable so no rolling update breakage.
I hesitate to type this but ive yet to lose the breakage lottery...
I am now hesitant to update again
It has been years since I DD Arch. It may be much better now, I'm just scared to go through that again on my DD even though it was great between breaking.
Possible, LTS kernel can help mitugate a lot or exclude the kernel from every update. I believe many screw themselves addimg every AUR package they can without checking if its maintained.
It's fantastic if you have a system that you use at an appliance. For example, a laptop that only does one thing (surf the web), or a living room PC that's only for gaming or watching movies.
So, I've learned immutable means flatpak all the things. I'm fine with that in theory, except some of my daily use apps don't have flatpak's available.
So now I need to decide if I'm willing to go down the "make my own flatpaks from source code" rabbit hole.
It is just a manifest file, I'll #asknostr how hard could it be? Any #linux folks out there built your own flatpak before? How hard is it?