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Yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about.
"Guy doesn't know Linux, so don't just confuse him with that info, also throw in containers, advanced container management, storage layer interaction and what that even means, sandbox permissions, intermediate networking, RBAC routing, and WTF immutable means and why NONE of the best documentation on the Internet that exists for everything Linux covers whatever immutable distro."
So yeah...there's a stark contrast between all of the above, and having them use the SIMPLEST and best supported and documented version of a distro. You keep going banging that square peg into the circle whole you suggested without reason.
I bet you're just GREAT with teaching 🤣
First off, you do not need to know most of that stuff. Tooling around container-based development is really nice nowadays. It just works almost all the time -- and way more often than in mutable setups.
As a beginner you can not really transfer docs from one distribution to another, so you look for docs on your distribution and ask in the official support channels. Those of bazzite are pretty responsive and will be able to help. The community is able to help way better than in a traditional system where every installation is almost but not exactly the same.
Nothing is as bad as accidentally removing some important OS files and not knowing how to restore them. That will just not happen in an immutable setup.
I have installed immutable distros on lots of computers and the users usually are happier than they were on traditional linux: Nothing breaks anymore, the setup is way more solid. Its great for me, too, as I need to support them less often.
Seriously, you should give this a try: Immutable OSes are a huge step forward. Takes a few days to get used to, but I am pretty sure you will not want to go back afterwards.
I've been building custom immutable distros for more than a decade. They have their place. Desktop and development ain't that place.
The main application and use-case is obvious: IoT, EDD, consumer devices...etc. Maybe even bare metal if you don't have proper PXE or other remote image booting. They mean nothing for cloud, because, well, why? They certainly aren't needed for any container-based work either, because containers.
There's a reason why devs aren't adopting them.
Also, on your point about people "accidentally" deleting crucial files, that's a straw man's argument. If you have users in any kind of setting where you need a stable and repeatable install, you're working with mapped network mounts and these users don't have sudo/root access. If you're dumb enough to be giving them said access, or deleting these files yourself, well that's on you.
Immutable distros are the future for everything. We just need to wait a for the people most heavily invested into the status quo to retire.
Any user can delete important OS files by turning their computer off while an upgrade is running in almost all traditional distros:-) Sure, you can disable updates, but that is not an option either.
100% NOT how updates work, but 👍
and you can break an immutable distro by hitting the computer with a hammer