How immutability works on Linux
This is gonna be a pretty short article, but hopefully it saves someone some time. Ever since NixOS hit the scene, there has been a growing movement of linux practitioners that extol the idea of an immutable distribution, which is an OS where the system itself is read-only, and all the applications are installed via containers. My Uninformed Opinion This idea is a bit of a mixed bag for me. On the first hand, I love using live linux distros as “ghost operating systems” where I do my thing and nothing is left behind. It keeps the system stable, uncluttered, and I can’t think of a setup that’s more private than one that forgets everything you do. ...