DistroWatchWith some distribution projects starting to adapt age verification code, I wonder if people are now starting to realize why immutable filesystems are such a concern? Once a distro bakes user tracking code into the core image it's harder to get rid of it when dealing with an immutable operating system. With a writable filesystem the component can just be swapped out or recompiled.
Nicolás Danelón@distrowatch nah they won't care. We care about that because we are nix nerds :/
@nicolasdanelon Nix the package manager or *nix the family of operating systems? I am in favour either way.
@distrowatch hahaha the OS family ahah
Tokenizer@distrowatch Interesting point.
AdamThe immutable O.S. never included a hostile O.S. in the threat model but if it comes to that maybe its better just not to use a hostile distro to begin with?
@adamsaidsomething This shows how people tend to be short sighted. An immutable OS sounds beneficial to many, but it only remains that way until the developers do something the user doesn't like.
People who see immutable platforms as "the future" have not studied the past.