I recently took up Bazzite from mint and I love it! After using it for a few days I found out it was an immutable distro, after looking into what that is I thought it was a great idea. I love the idea of getting a fresh image for every update, I think for businesses/ less tech savvy people it adds another layer of protection from self harm because you can't mess with the root without extra steps.
For anyone who isn't familiar with immutable distros I attached a picture of mutable vs immutable, I don't want to describe it because I am still learning.
My question is: what does the community think of it?
Do the downsides outweigh the benefits or vice versa?
Could this help Linux reach more mainstream audiences?
Any other input would be appreciated!
Could you share some pics (without anything private ofc) of bazzite? I wanted to try it but I couldn't use it as live distro. My main problem is arch because I'm used to
aptand I find pacman or whatever it uses difficult for me (nothing I can't learn ofc)What do you mean? Thanks
Bazzite comes packaged with the essentials so that anyone can use it without using terminal. Flatpak is enabled by default and this is the best approach. You can check it out below.
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/
If you're not comfortable yet using any other terminal package manager other than apt, you can still use bazzite and learn with time. You can install most apps through Discover (KDE) or Gnome software
I don't have any pics cause I'm not currently near my computer that runs bazzite.
If you're mainly using GUI apps you'll probably just be installing everything through flatpak, which you can use via the Discover store that comes with KDE Plasma. CLI apps are installed using homebrew.
The docs might give you some insight on using it: https://docs.bazzite.gg/
Noooooo! I'll install it on VM
99% of the times on KDE neon I install using deb files and dpkg
Isn't bazzite fedora-based? Meaning you use
dnfinstead ofaptorpacman.Since it's immutable, you'll probably not be using DNF much.
Good point!
I don't know what it uses and as someone who always used apt, pacman or dnf is hard to understand
Edit: Not that I can't learn.. Just saying is hard for me