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Immutable distros and dot files / config files
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Leveraging flatpaks, as per the recommended workflow, largely negates these issues as well. Userspace apps shouldn't be impacted by the host OS changes in such cases.
It does, for the apps that are Flatpaks. But e.g. most of GNOME, and Firefox, are part of the immutable image at least for Fedora Silverblue.
I admit I typically hide the RPM Firefox and stick to the flatpak version. Aside from Nautilus though, in my experience most of the core GNOME user apps are provided via flatpak under Silverblue, including things like GNOME Calendar, Text Editor, Contacts, Totem, Evince, EoG, etc.
True; I'm mostly thinking about foundational pieces like GNOME Shell and settings, which could still wreak quite a bit of havoc. I don't actually know how often those introduce such breaking changes, but I'd rather not risk it.