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  • Asthmatic_Goose@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Immutable, adjective: Unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

    From the article: “We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything, but we’re too lazy to maintain anything. So we automated the entire delivery pipeline in GitHub.”

    So, in other words… “Please don’t ever update your system or everything will break”

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      11 months ago

      It means the core OS is isolated from all the functionality in a way that allows you to modularly add all the functionality on top of it in a reproducible, robust way.

      In theory. I haven’t actually dug into any of them personally.