Hard to break, and Bazzite.

Been using nixos for a couple months now. It’s nice and I really enjoy having all my configuration in one place and able to be version controlled. The down side being installing and configuring things take a bit more time to read how nix does it. I have it on a laptop that I’ve been playing with and removed it and put rocky for something else but I am 100% confident I can go right back to the way i had it.

So far the cons I’m seeing is installing vscode plugins are a little annoying and setting up to do python development on existing projects not very easy.

Better resources usage when running all the apps as Flatpaks. Once you hit the close button, the zygote is killed, and you’re sure that web browser doesn’t run anything stupid in the background anymore.

If you want to tinker with the system, if you want to install multiple DEs, if you want to test and change things on your own, you may not like the rigidity of atomic systems.

If you don’t want to tinker with your system and you always want to have a working system, go for it.

In the future it will become easier to tinker with the system (I hope that it doesn’t take the path of android). I hope that more happens within containers and that it mature even more. Maybe the de within a distrobox? That would be awesome but I don’t no the downside of it.

Right now you are still an early adopter. It sounds like the future and for many it will be, but who know what’s next. Especially companies have an interest in fedora’s atomic distros with ostree.

If you’re using gnome/kde, I see no reason not to run immutable, the advantages of not being immutable are that you can piece together your system, if you’re running i3/sway/whatever, being able to choose your panel, your launcher, etc actually has value.

The advantages of immutable are that you’ll never end up with a broken system, you can easily roll back to a not broken one if something does break, and the system is separate from your apps.

I’d just like to add that after using ubuntu (as a newbie), then arch for several years I recently switched to bazzite (atomic fedora with steam/gaming focus) on my daily driver.

It is SO NICE to have everything just work. And steam games that I never got working on other distros just run out of the box. Everything just works, and it doesn’t feel bloated at all like ubuntu.