I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I’m choosing a distro to hop to.
My question is: what are good immutable distros other than Fedora Silverblue spins, UBlue family and NixOS?
Maybe someone uses/used any? What is/was your experience with it?

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    From OpenSUSE there’s also leap micro. Never used it, but maybe worth looking at.

    If you don’t like fedora it might still be worth trying one of the fedora atomics, depending on what you didn’t like. For instance, I could never get used to dnf, but it’s largely irrelevant on an atomic distro anyways.

    I would love to see a true atomic Debian-based distro, but I think that’s a long way from maturity.

    Edit: opensuse aeon will also be released soon, but at least the comments on this post seem to think that there’s some important things missing from Suse atomic.

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      From OpenSUSE there’s also leap micro. Never used it, but maybe worth looking at.

      I heard of it, but it seems more server/development focused, rather than desktop.

      For instance, I could never get used to dnf, but it’s largely irrelevant on an atomic distro anyways.

      100% agree, dnf is a bummer. Maybe I’ll give Kinoite a shot, as it has many differences with “vanilla” Fedora.

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        What started as openSUSE Micro Desktop is now openSUSE Aeon. It’s still RC2, and RC3 will probably be easier to do a clean install since it will add full disk encryption, but if you want to check it out now it’s reliable and works well.

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          Ahhh gotcha. The websites don’t give a good indication of that, unfortunately. Trying to find the differences between OpenSUSE flavors was surprisingly hard. Thanks for the info!

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            In recent turn of events, openSUSE Aeon will probably just be Aeon, and the name openSUSE will disappear everywhere.

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        Honestly I tried Silverblue, and had a much better time after I rebased to Bluefin. I would recommend going for Aurora over Kinoite. Of course, you can always rebase.