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by utopiah 56 days ago
Indeed, Debian stable with podman/Docker is "immutable enough" for me.

It is also the insurance that I will get help whenever I'm stuck.

Sure it could be smaller ... but when it already runs fine on any hardware, even weird stuff like a BananaPi with a low-end RISC-V processor, then I have a difficult time wanting anything else.

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I won't try to change your mind, but I think you should know that...

Debian isn't immutable at all. Everything is writable from the partition table, the kernel, to the C library and every executable.

Lightwhale has very few moving parts, making it less likely to get stuck. The single-page website is easily searchable and has information to get most people started. The Lightwhale Discord server answers the rest.

Here's a link to the advantages that immutability of Lightwhale brings to the table, just to give you an idea what you're dealing with: https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/#immutability