[toprerules]

You’re missing the whole point of an immutable distro. If you have a hobby project on a regular distro, you run apt-get update or whatever, it installs 200 packages and half of them run scripts that do some script specific thing to your machine. If something goes wrong you just bought yourself a week’s worth of debugging to figure out how to roll back the state.

If you update using an immutable distro, you rebase back on to your previous deployment or adjust a pin and you’re done. Immutable distros save you tons of time handling system upgrades, and the best part is you can experimentally change to a beta or even alpha version of your distro without any fear at all.

[bmicraft]

> If something goes wrong you just bought yourself a week’s worth of debugging to figure out how to roll back the state.

But that basically doesn't happen between release upgrades, not unless you're doing something with third party repos at least.

> If you update using an immutable distro, you rebase back on to your previous deployment or adjust a pin and you’re done

I genuinely don't know, but can you do security updates without rebasing? Just keeping some working version pinned sounds like bad idea to me, and doesn't even save you time because you'll need it resolve that problem eventually anyways.

[ChocolateGod]

> But that basically doesn't happen between release upgrades

Nvidia would like a word

[bmicraft]

For pre-Turing closed drivers I'd count that as an unsupported third party, even if the distribution in questions tries to support it.

[bigstrat2003]

I have an Nvidia card and I've never had it cause problems.

[ChocolateGod]

Many people install Nvidia drivers by using their shipped .run binary (which is a bad idea) and thus breaks when the kernel is updated to something higher than the DKMS module supports.

[bmicraft]

Well, that certainly counts as third party