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Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them
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Silverblue is cool. I've been playing around with it on a portable NVMe drive. Planning on making the switch soon (whether that's Silverblue itself or another immutable option).
It's a really intriguing concept. One interesting point I saw someone make the other day is that you don't necessarily need an explicitly immutable distro to achieve the affect. It's more about your user habits and workflows. If I can't find an alternative to Silverblue that I like, I'll probably just go to Debian or Arch and make it "immutable" by not touching the base system at all and running apps with Flatpaks or distrobox containers.