I am playing around with Fedora Silverblue and openSUSE Aeon and I really like the painless updates.
Still, my daily driver for some years now is Debian, and I have a decent setup via Ansible - everything just works for me.
My question is mostly to long term Linux users, which use Linux in a professional context and jumped from a distribution like Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE or Debian to NixOS, Silverblue, Aeon etc.
What is your experience? How did your workflows change on your immutable Linux distribution? Did you try immutable and went back to a more traditional distribution - why? How long are you running the immutable distribution and what issues and perks did you run into?
You can actually use distrobox to set up a regular version of Fedora, set up VSCode there using the official Microsoft RPM and keep all your code in there.
I know, but then again… it’s just another layer of maintenance.
Don’t get me wrong. Distrobox is a wonderful piece of software. I use Arch inside DB to run some non-crucial stuff that’s not available in the fedora repos/copr, like lycheeslicer.
But having a working and reliable code environment is something I’d really not want to babysit.