I’m not planning to alter the system daily so, admittedly, this is a bespoke, non-trivial process to handle an uncommon use case.
Honestly, I think you’re underselling the potential importance this has; I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of users that have tried Fedora Silverblue, openSUSE Aeon or Vanilla OS were simply put off by how long it took them to get going post-installation compared to any other distros they’re used to. So, I do believe it’s a noble endeavor. However, I’m actually more in favor of educating people on the paradigm shift that comes with an atomic distro.
In general I haven’t run into the kind of issues that immutable distros proport to fix.
That’s excellent! If I may ask, which distro(s) do you usually run on your systems?
I would say this is moreso an OCD friendly approach to OS management.
Hehe, great way to put it.
I’m also hoping this setup will basically force me into using Ansible more and manual tweaks less.
Interesting to see you mention Ansible. I’ll get to this in a moment.
I feel Guix and NixOS are a bit more in a league of their own due to their declarative nature.
Exactly.
I’m on the fence if I want to go that far.
I believe you’re ripe for it; if you want to force yourself into using Ansible, then you might as well commit to GuixSD or NixOS instead.
Again, I’ll admit my knowledge of these systems is based on docs and I’ll probably have much different thoughts getting hands on.
That’s fine. We’re all continuously educating ourselves.
And my goal is to rely on Flatpak and containers
Interesting! Like, 100% rely on those two only? So not even installing software directly to base system*? This is actually kinda similar to openSUSE’s current implementation for its atomic distros**.
but if that was the answer then all the immutable distros out there are about as overbaked as my idea.
I’m not entirely sure if I understood you correctly. But I agree that Flatpak and containers can basically be achieved on any distro out there. No need to go immutable/atomic/composable if you just want Flatpak+containers.