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[โ€“] rozodru@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no prob. I think for certain situations immutable is good. Like in your cause where you use it at work, it makes sense to have a workplace on an immutable distro, just makes things easier. In my case since I'm a developer it also makes sense as the likely hood of me absolutely breaking something is high. plus with nix and the nix flakes and nix shell environments it makes developing a breeze.

For someone at home who is NEW to Linux, yeah it also makes sense. For everyone else? meh I don't really see a need for it if you know what you're doing. Don't get me wrong I love Arch and all its various forks, especially CachyOS, so I mean if it works for you then why go immutable? there's no right and wrong distro for a user, it's whatever they prefer. Hell a buddy of mine uses Slackware and will never move from it.

[โ€“] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This is a very canny take, and I appreciate the frankness of it. I find myself agreeing with basically everything you say (except about OS' I don't use because I don't have enough of an opinion).

Thanks for being a positive representative of the Linux community!