Paul Brown

Immutable distros are great at keeping users safe and sysadmins sane. Users cannot modify the base system – even with super user access. This means the user cannot delete anything vital or install anything dodgy. The only way the base system changes is through updates, and updates are atomic, which means the whole system is updated all at once. Avoiding error-prone partial updates adds an extra level of security and allows for an easy rollback to a prior version if something goes awry.

Search for help on programming and chances are the first five results you get back from your search engine of choice will be from Stack Overflow. If you ask the Internet something more niche, such as how much do sea turtles grow in a year or what fertilizer should you use to make the leaves on your basil grow more luscious and juicy, many of the responses will come from Reddit (that is, unless you use Google, in which case your first 10 results will be ads).