I feel the same way. Like yes, everyone has screwed around and found out but to the point that we need to be like “I will NOT touch anything in the filesystem other than home”? Seems a little bit overkill to me. Would like to hear from someone who uses one to see what their reasons are, because if its just “i dont like cleaning up installation files” i’m not on board.
@tenfour@rarsamx I use them everywhere on the grounds that all computers fail at some point, and you can quickly recover your exact system on a different machine. You just need to have good, timely, backups of your home directory, but you want to do that anyway because those are your precious data.
I would always recommend against normal users from straying away from the most beaten path. These more technical appealing distros are for advanced users that have specific purpose and use cases in mind. Yeah, in particular, users that adjust their environment frequently (maybe for software development purposes), and want to ensure system stability at the same time.
But, really, how frequently a normal user borks their system?
I’ve been using Linux for since 2004 and I can’t remember the last time (if any) that I irrecoverably borked the system.
I use arch, mint and Fedora. Repositories in those three are solid.
Yes, immutable systems have their uses. Mostly entreprise uses but for home? Only out of curiosity.
I feel the same way. Like yes, everyone has screwed around and found out but to the point that we need to be like “I will NOT touch anything in the filesystem other than home”? Seems a little bit overkill to me. Would like to hear from someone who uses one to see what their reasons are, because if its just “i dont like cleaning up installation files” i’m not on board.
@tenfour @rarsamx I use them everywhere on the grounds that all computers fail at some point, and you can quickly recover your exact system on a different machine. You just need to have good, timely, backups of your home directory, but you want to do that anyway because those are your precious data.
I would always recommend against normal users from straying away from the most beaten path. These more technical appealing distros are for advanced users that have specific purpose and use cases in mind. Yeah, in particular, users that adjust their environment frequently (maybe for software development purposes), and want to ensure system stability at the same time.