What’s the difference? No matter how hard I look, most of their websites just consist of them advertising that they are immutable.
Guix System is wildly different
NixOS is the new “I use arch btw.”
Well, it is pretty nice …
Okay, I get what an immutable distro is. I get it’s advantages in security/safety. But can someone please explain why this matters? Like, how much safer is this really? I don’t understand the cost/benefit ratio of having an immutable core, especially since compromising the core will probably require fully compromising one or more privileged processes first, at which point it would be game over for a mutable distro as well.
It’s mostly useful for stability in appliances and reproducibility in large scale deployments.
IMO, I don’t think immutability makes sense for desktop use. The whole point of a desktop is to make it personalized.
Nix os is on the fence tho. It is immutable, but got hot reload so…
Nix’s ‘immutability’ is, as I understand it, quite a different idea to the others.
