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by zoobab 649 days ago
"If the OS is immutable, where do you store personal data"

In a mounted folder.

"how do you perform updates?"

You use another image.

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I was interested in a little more detail. Is the home directory on another USB, or maybe a laptop's built-in SSD? To add new software, is he creating a new custom image every time? Is this practical as a daily driver?
And thus a new mind was awoken.
This is patronizing. Especially since the response was tautological. You should not assume that I know nothing.