I know three Debian-based distros which are immutable: Endless OS, Vanilla OS, Nitrux. But they have a specific target audience.
An immutable OS also requires a change of habits. Since you cannot (normally) write to the OS itself, pretty much all work flows are container based.
What could be a good compromise is having a file system that can do snapshots and a tool that makes a snapshot before every package operation like apt-btrfs-snapshot. If something breaks, you simply reboot to the snapshot.
Jiří Eischmann /
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2024-09-14 06:24:14
in reply to nevent1q…nuha
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