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[โ€“] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're talking about declarative systems like Nix. Immutable just means that the root filesystem is read-only. You can install programs as Flatpaks or inside a container (toolbox on Silverblue).

[โ€“] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, no kidding.
I always thought immutable required the declarative installs.
I guess, immutable is more "containerised userland"?