[HN Gopher] The State of Immutable Linux
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       The State of Immutable Linux
        
       Author : JustinGarrison
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2026-03-27 15:43 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | bjoli wrote:
       | I went all in about a year ago after running microOs for some
       | time. I am pretty happy with the situation, and while I do like
       | the transactional-update way of microos, their immutable desktops
       | have been too much work for me. Kalpa is alpha, and aeon runs
       | gnome. I tried for a year, but one day I had enough and installed
       | kinoite and haven't looked back (although I have been looking at
       | Aurora).
       | 
       | Since you never touch the base system, you get more or less a
       | rolling release distro, since updating between fedora versions
       | becomes even simpler.
        
       | madspindel wrote:
       | > It's 2026, if you're not using something immutable (or at least
       | reproducable) you're doing more maintenance work than you should.
       | 
       | I used to use MicroOS on Raspberry Pis and NUCs but the rolling
       | release actually led to more maintenance work (fixing breaking
       | changes like config changes). Eventually I moved to Ubuntu but
       | kept the mindset that all installed applications should be podman
       | containers. I don't miss MicroOS...
        
       | evanjrowley wrote:
       | Glad to see Talos Linux there!
       | 
       | Another interesting, though less radical take on an immutable
       | container OS is IncusOS. Made by the same people behind LXC:
       | https://github.com/lxc/incus-os
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       | I wish the article's NixOS section had mentioned impermanence
       | features which can be used to make NixOS actually immutable:
       | https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Impermanence
        
         | JustinGarrison wrote:
         | I work at Sidero, but I'm glad that wasn't obvious from the
         | article because I'm trying to be fair.
         | 
         | I heard about Impermanence right after I gave the talk so I'm
         | looking into it.
        
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