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Why use immutable Linux ? And which one ?
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How?
Because all changes are transactional so you can easily revert to a previous system state if you break anything
With fedora atomic, lets say i wanted to try out kde desktop for a while. i would first pin my current build so i can roll back to it if i dont end liking kde with
Then i would rebase to the kde branch with
Then just reboot. That’s literally it and i would have a kde system with all my layered packages and i could roll back to my old system at anytime.