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I'm very excited about how the Linux community generally seems to be moving towards various approaches to immutable systems - all of them having in common that system updates are going to be a lot less likely to break. The future is looking good!
As long as we don't end up with Linux systems designed like Android.
If anyone would lock their OS down like that, it would be Canonical.
“like android/ios” is the ultimate goal of these systems lol
is pretty vague. Do you mean locked down, with features like SafetyNet which locks people in to Google Services? Or do you mean locked down in the sense that installing packages doesn't just directly change the files in / ?
Systems like rpm-ostree still allow modifications to the OS, it just requires other steps. OpenSUSE MicroOS even allows for arbitrary modifications to the root fs through transactional-update (it even allows for dropping in to a transactional-update shell, so it's not necessary to prefix each command with transactional-update).
Especially OpenSUSE MicroOS feels more like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, compared to Fedora rpm-ostree's limitations compared to Fedora dnf.
Using Fedora Silverblue has gone a long way to dispel that concern for me. It goes out of its way to be much more user-centric than that. I can't speak for the others yet.
Having distro maintainers decide a rigid partition structure for you would be a really bad approach, so I really hope not.
Yes except it’s all open source and if you’re unhappy you can fork. Good luck forking iOS.