cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15781466

Am I out of touch?

No, it’s the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

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an immutable distro is not necessarily declarative

It is necessarily so. You can’t configure an immutable distro by a sequence of mutations.

But yes, the other way around is quite possible.

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You can’t configure an immutable distro by a sequence of mutations.

Isn’t that literally how ostree works?

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NixOS isn’t immutable though. It runs on normal writable ext4 by default.

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I use Arch btw


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