I find that many Linux users have a misconception about immutable distributions without knowing what it actually is. There is a lot of misinformation and generalization in the Internet about immutable distributions being “locked down”, “inflexible”, etc., when we could argue the same with many traditional distributions. In this article, we’ll look at what makes an immutable distribution, the concept of an immutable distribution versus implementations, misconceptions about immutable distributions (both pro and con), and why they exist in the first place.
Immutability has always struck me as a fad.
Aside from declaring variables as FINAL or whatever because I know they won’t be changed, the mere idea of using it as a default just seems unnecessarily restrictive to me.
It feels like people who bog themselves down in theory to solve their problems instead of practicality think immutability is a godsend.
For everyone else, it doesn’t really matter at best or is an inconvenience at worst.
Do you mean in programming? Because this is talking about immutable Linux distributions.