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submitted 4 months ago by Ripley@r.nf to c/linux@lemmy.world

Does immutable distros something significant over btrfs snapshots?

Beacuse if you set up grub or refind to auto-load new snapshots, immutable distros starts to look like over-engineered complexity.

So, am I missing something here?

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[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 9 points 4 months ago

They’re very different things. For example, my nix store is btrfs.

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