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2026-07-19 16:00 UTC

easily solved by not giving them root access. Root vs non-root is, in a nutshell, a tangled mess with millions of opportunities for “oops, didn’t think of that” situations: www.cve.org/downloads Immutable keeps the legacy system confituration basically unchanged, but also restores it “from ROM” every time you power on. (not real ROM, but effectively.) In an immutable system, the attack surface is dramatically reduced, and much more diverse among systems than with a mutable OS.

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@ranzispa@mander.xyz 2026-07-19 16:12

I reckon this must be true. However I do not see this as a reason for wide adoption of immutable systems. I guess that is a fairly valid use case. I’d like to understand why some users are enthusiastic about bazzite. As of now I understood two of the reasons: updates work and do not break the system it is a bit more secure However I do not understand why these two things make their users so enthusiastic. It’s two things you rarely worry about when using a computer. They are indeed important, but in my opinion not much of a problem in modern distributions. In the other hand you have to install everything through flatpak, which is something which would really get to my nerves. I understand there are some good advantages, I just fail to understand which ones those are.

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