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  • Nope.

    Hate to keep litigating this around here, but the shift alone is enough. Explaining to people WTF an immutable filesystem is, is a sure way to frustrate them into giving up, despite whatever comms finesse you might THINK you have.

    Counterpoint: STOP SUGGESTING IMMUTABLE DISTROS TO NEW USERS

    For people who just want a functional OS, they don’t want to have to think about new rules. They need a quick off-ramp from Windows that acts as they expect.

    Package management is already enough of a mindfuck for people switching, then you’re throwing in containers, permissions, flatpak vs native packages, what sandboxing is, why your browser likely can’t just upload a simple fucking file, and why your camera doesn’t work on Zoom, because you have a meeting in 10 minutes.

    Unless you are handing people something akin to a mobile OS with everything all inclusive and configured so EVERYTHING works off the bat, you’re doing such a huge disservice to people switching over to an immutable distro, and there is ZERO benefit, but all kinds of added frustration.

    You need to stop, and I yield my time.
















  • Nah, it’s not that risky if your tooling and process is solid. I have thousands of edge devices out in the field doing firmware updates on carrier boards from a specific manufacturer and have never had one fail or brick in update. Why? Because their tooling is absolutely fantastic and pretty bulletproof.

    Even a simple {checksum>transfer>checksum>write>checksum} is pretty safe, UNLESS…you know the carrier you’re flashing doesnt have the ability to do so, in which case, you definitely put a warning like this on your product because you know it has a penchant for failure.