[kwlug-disc] Bad review of "immutable" distros

[William Park]

I don't think there is any immutable Debian distro.

But, there is atomic Debian distro "SysLinuxOS" which, according to 
their press release, uses BTRFS and takes before/after snapshots when 
adding/removing packages.  I tried it on VirtualBox, but it didn't 
default to BTRFS, and Debian 13 is too old for my liking.


On 2026-06-22 23:55, Ron Singh wrote:
> You know, seeing this discussion, I need to go watch your 
> presentation. I see your point on atomic vs immutable and yeah, so 
> many folks are referring to Atomic offerings as "immutable"...Fedora.
>
> I have a case where a true immutable OS with a thin 
> desktop(Xfce/Mate/LXDE) would be cool to try out.
> I currently have 2 laptops runing Debian 12,  Firefox-ESR, LibreCalc, 
> LibreWrite, Leafpad, that's it.
> These 2 laptops go to 5 websites that are not Java-happy, just tables 
> of numbers really.
> Staid, very static use case.
> I tried using the Distrowatch search filters, but could not narrow 
> down to a proper offering.
>
> I suppose I could simply turn off all updates and my laptops would be 
> "immutable", heh.
>
> I cannot deal with the Gnome desktop, that one makes me hurl.
> I do want to try an _/actual/_ immutable offering with a humane DE, 
> parked on a spare machine doing the work I do on these 2 laptops 
> running Debian 12 with Xfce/Firefox-ESR with Java turned off and most 
> of the time off-line with me just beating away at the keyboard. I just 
> don't know what to turn to,
>
> //
> /Ron S./
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