alt Hacker NewsI dont get it.
Why do I need immutable if I'm just running docker?
Why do I need a specialized Debian variant when I can install docker on Debian or Ubuntu in a couple minutes?
And maintenance happens directly through the package manager, either through the distro maintained repo, or by adding the official docker repos?
This immutable fad needs to go away. So does flatpak and snap.
Linux already does the things these "solutions" are trying to solve.
Users can't update the base system without root, and applications should be installing dependencies in /usr/lib
Indeed, Debian stable with podman/Docker is "immutable enough" for me.
It is also the insurance that I will get help whenever I'm stuck.
Sure it could be smaller ... but when it already runs fine on any hardware, even weird stuff like a BananaPi with a low-end RISC-V processor, then I have a difficult time wanting anything else.