Post #3936774
2026-07-19 15:14 UTC
Run an update on a traditional system, and pull the power plug out when it’s half way through. If it recovers when you reboot it, you got pretty lucky.
Now do the same with an immutable system like Bazzite. It will be running the pre-update image when you reboot it. No harm done. It’s essentially impossible for an update (or even a failed update) to brick the system. You can always roll back to the last working image.
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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-07-19 15:54
It’s the kind of thing they should have developed to release-ready state 20 years ago - when hard drives were already absurdly large vs needs of the OS and data.
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@ranzispa@mander.xyz 2026-07-19 16:04
I see, that is a really nice feature! No idea why this is not something already safely handled my normal package managers.
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@excel@lemming.megumin.org 2026-07-19 16:13
CachyOS does this just fine with bootable BTRFS snapshots before and after each update, without forcing me to use Flatpaks that don’t support all of the features of the normal apps or else break the immutability. For example, it’s not possible to get all Discord features working in Flatpak (even with tinkering) due to inherent limitations of Flatpak.