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Manjaro Immutable Out Now for Community Testing (forum.manjaro.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (22 children)

Immutables are cool—I’ve been running Silverblue for over half a year now. However, this seems half baked?

Unless I’ve misunderstood, you can no longer use pacman (without losing your changes after the next update).

And arkdep itself is just a shell script without any tests or continuous integration. I would be skeptical of using such a tool to control the integrity of my system.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I could probably summarize your experience as "skill issue".

I don’t understand the hype of immutables, or usability even.

I suppose this article/blogpost by Lennart Poettering should suffice. Though, this article/blogpost by Colin Walters is also cool.

I tried Bazzite today after Nobara nuked itself, and I couldn’t even paste my old Firefox profile since the actual folder apparently sits within the immutable folder structure.

This is simply false as pointed out by others already.

I didn’t even have time to reach the software limitations with how fast I tried the next distro.

You will have a very hard time on Linux with that mindset. And, to be honest, literally any OS you aren't already familiar with.

Still hopping though, because apparently Fedora just nukes itself when you try to install codecs

I wouldn't be surprised if you just searched this through your favorite search engine and settled with whatever random solution you came across instead of relying upon RPM Fusion's documentation on the matter.

and I think I have about every major distro tested by now.

While this could be true, I wonder what prevented you from sticking with any one of them.

Linux is cursed.

It's definitely a lot harder if you've got major skill issues.

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