I am playing around with Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE Aeon and I really like the painless updates.

Still, my daily driver for some years now is Debian, and I have a decent setup via Ansible - everything just works for me.

My question is mostly to long term Linux users, which use Linux in a professional context and jumped from a distribution like Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE or Debian to NixOS, Silverblue, Aeon etc.

What is your experience? How did your workflows change on your immutable Linux distribution? Did you try immutable and went back to a more traditional distribution - why? How long are you running the immutable distribution and what issues and perks did you run into?

  • Nine@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 months ago

    I think there’s just not enough people who run them. I think the closest you’ll find is the nixos crowd.

    I’ve wanted to give silverblue a go, but I know how to manage my fedora install pretty well and don’t feel like taking on a new project like that when at the end of the day I just want to load up steam and decompress. I have a feeling that the majority people who want to try it are in same place I am.

    Though it’s getting more and more tempting to switch since the vast majority of my data and packages are installed in my home.

    • adONis@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      yep…same here.

      Also, I use VSCode which incorporates all the toolings that I have installed and also frequently use in a terminal. For an immutable system, I'd have to use the Flatpak version of VScode, which cannot access these toolings from the host.

      So, no immutability for me now.

      • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        This is false. I use VsCode and all I need to do is open it by typing “codium .” after direnv loads the flake file which points to all of my dependencies. I don’t use flatpak and I’m able to provision ALL of the tooling in a way that lives with the project rather than on my machine, needing to be manually updated.

        • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Also, on nixos you don't have to do that if you are lazy and can just install dependencies in your global config. Yeah its less optimal, but I'm too lazy to make flake files for each project.

      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
        2·
        11 months ago

        You can actually use distrobox to set up a regular version of Fedora, set up VSCode there using the official Microsoft RPM and keep all your code in there.