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I don't think there is any immutable Debian distro.<br>
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But, there is atomic Debian distro "SysLinuxOS" which, according to
their press release, uses BTRFS and takes before/after snapshots
when adding/removing packages. I tried it on VirtualBox, but it
didn't default to BTRFS, and Debian 13 is too old for my liking.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2026-06-22 23:55, Ron Singh wrote:<br>
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class="gmail_default">You know, seeing this discussion, I
need to go watch your presentation. I see your point on
atomic vs immutable and yeah, so many folks are referring
to Atomic offerings as "immutable"...Fedora.</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">I have a case where a true immutable
OS with a thin desktop(Xfce/Mate/LXDE) would be cool to
try out.</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">I currently have 2 laptops runing
Debian 12, Firefox-ESR, LibreCalc, LibreWrite, Leafpad,
that's it. </div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">These 2 laptops go to 5 websites
that are not Java-happy, just tables of numbers really. </div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">Staid, very static use case. </div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">I tried using the Distrowatch search
filters, but could not narrow down to a proper offering.</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">I suppose I could simply turn off
all updates and my laptops would be "immutable", heh.</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">I cannot deal with the Gnome
desktop, that one makes me hurl. </div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">I do want to try an <u><i>actual</i></u>
immutable offering with a humane DE, parked on a spare
machine doing the work I do on these 2 laptops running
Debian 12 with Xfce/Firefox-ESR with Java turned off and
most of the time off-line with me just beating away at the
keyboard. I just don't know what to turn to,</div>
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