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Sounds like you should try silverblue. Its out of your way and has auto updates. I think vanillaOS is basicly the same too. Immutable seems the way to go for normal users since its so reliable. As long as everything they need is available as a flatpack.
immutable OSs are killing the desktop OS, keeping the user restricted.
As long as the mutable options stay around I don't see how that's a problem. For normal users the restrictions are worth the extra reliability. It's not a true restriction if you can just go install the unrestricted version anytime.
How so?