Well been in conversation with someone off forum, and trying to explain to them what an immutable system is and stumbled on this nugget:
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I don't find this Article pretty well. The Writer speaks about ''anti-X11 Propaganda'' but the whole Article reads itself like Propaganda, too for me.
No one says that immutable Distros and Flatpaks are perfect. But they are are Alternatives. And calling out here Fedora is an own Thing for itself, too. Because they their own Flatpak Repo.
To quote that:
So it seems to me like they’re gearing up to force everyone to nuke their Workstation install and go “Atomic Workstation” (the former name of Silverblue).
They are don't forcing. You have the Choice if You want use the normal Distros or the immutable one's. And on each You have a Variety of Desktop Environments to choose.
And there is mentioned about unpatched Libaries in Flatpaks. I guess, it is about the used Runtime Environments and Stuff like that, that can be too old. I agree that this is an Issue - but not an Issue of Flatpak. It is a Developer Issue. When the Developer doesn't Care about his Software. And in this Case, I don't think it is a good Idea to use this Package at all. Not because it is a Flatpak - because the Developer don't Care about the Software. And when I know that, I wouldn't use any Software of the Person. Again: I don't say Flatpaks are perfect. Sure, they have Weaknesses.
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So it seems to me like they’re gearing up to force everyone to nuke their Workstation install and go “Atomic Workstation” (the former name of Silverblue).
Anyone who wants to know the truth can search through Fedora Project's Discussion page and proposed changes. There is no serious proposal to end support for mutable desktops, which is good because I use Workstation as my daily driver.
What is being discussed is whether to make the immutable Workstation (Silverblue) the default one that is marketed to new people vs. the mutable one that is default when you go to download Fedora.
There are pros and cons to each. For the very basic user who spends nearly all their time in a web browser, an immutable system has its advantages. Updates roll out everyday, and if an update fails, you roll back and try again the next day. It's not nearly as big of a deal as the author of the article makes it out to be.
That said, immutable systems are not for me. I like to tinker with things and install occasional packages via RPM files, which creates layering headaches with rpm-ostree.
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Yes it's been years since I used rpm (Mandrake, SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional) and more recently, PCLOS. I much prefer working with .deb packages.