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What's up with all these immutable distributions? What are the benefits and disadvantages of them? (lemmy.ml)
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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?

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Are those changes system-wide or stored in user space? Where are those files stored?

[-] Lurkki@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's system-wide (unless home-manager is involved).

They're a part of the immutable install, whose components reside in /nix/store and are symlinked to /etc.

Example from my computer:

$ realpath /etc/sddm.conf 
/nix/store/slkq2k8vc4rx4ag55zf8ssl7qd9ry49v-sddm.conf
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