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If you want to go play with /etc/fstab and you have a concept of "everyday cli tools"an immutable distro is not for you. An immutable distro is made for people that do not use a computer but use a browser.
Please don't conflate stuff.
On Fedora Atomic^[And probably most distros that are -perhaps erroneously- referred to as "immutable", though the finer details might be different.], it's possible to:
/etc/fstab. Heck, the same applies to everything under/etc. The only difference being that a pristine copy is kept at/usr/etcAND the fact that any changes to/etcare being tracked. Said changes can be accessed withostree admin config-diff.False. Again.
While I agree that it's a very sane recommendation to the technologically inept, it would be a huge disservice to suggest it can't handle more advanced workloads. Because, quite frankly, there's very little it actually fails at. And most of its user base would vouch for this. And that list of restrictions/limitations is becoming smaller as we speak...
I never said it was impossible, I said it is not for the op. The simple fact they don't see an apparent way to install simple tools or modify fstab would be for me unacceptable, I prefer freeballing my OS, thank you very much. I simply assumed op was more like me and less like you.
The terminal motd tells you exactly how to use the packages involved when you open it.
NixOS would beg to differ. :P