I use it as my work desktop is precisely to stop me pissing about with it. Play with stuff on an appropriate server is the lesson I am trying to teach myself.

It is sort of working.

I'm much happier using homebrew and pip to install things. If I absolutely need to modify system files, I'll use rpm-ostree.

I feel like it's been a good thing that my first instinct isn't to modify system files anymore.

I thought the immutability was the reason it was peoples choice over a distro like cachyos.

Only the main OS image is immutable, but there's distrobox, homebrew, virtual machines (now moved to bazzite-dx, only a rebase away), lots of ways to install stuff in userspace.

Distroboxes are actually a really good developer workflow (except for system level stuff) once you adapt, install everything needed for a project, develop, archive the environment, all without touching the main OS. Obscure old project with instructions only for Arch, needing old python and CUDA versions, no problem. Super versatile and you never boot to a broken system.

In a pinch you can also change the image with rpm-ostree install.

immutability is one of the reasons I like it.

I tried it and I wanted to uninstall Steam because I use Lutris and don’t want something proprietary potentially collecting data. I’m sure it’s possible to do, but I couldn’t be bothered because it’d be going against the grain. I like the concept otherwise, especially for a gaming distro. An immutable gaming / HTPC distro with Plsma Bigscreen and no Steam would be the bees knees.