There is no such thing as immutable or uncorruptable OS. My late father would always find a way to fuck up the laptop I setup for him. He would even come back with errors that I've seen for the first time and our conversation would go like this:

Me: How did this happen? My Father: how should know? It was like this when I turned it on. Me: what did you do before you turned it off last time? My Father: I was on Facebook, played some backgammon and watched some YouTube. Me: ...

I miss him and I would gladly give everything to have him bother me with his laptop problems one more time. I hope that he is getting some good support where ever he is.

Me when I accidentally type in sudo rm -rf /: how the fuck did I accidentally type that in?

you forgot --no-preserve-root or it won't do anything.

yeah that's why the term "atomic" is better

Immutable doesn't mean unbreakable though.

For true immutability, burn something like tails on a read-only CD.

Pretty sure this is the command my dad used to test disaster recovery systems.

you know. to simulate the entire cluster going poof. He spoke of having to get somebody else to actually send it, because it just felt that wrong.

(pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Pretty sure when he was asked to test their disaster recovery for his org... his first thought was probably "i've never nuked an entire network before")

What distro?

On Fedora Atomic Desktops:

If you deleted /etc then you can copy it from /usr/etc

Your fstab, shadow, crypttab, gpasswd and quite some other files are gone though, which is problematic.

https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/sig/-/issues/28

Me when I try vanilla os 2: