Chewy7324, 1 year ago

Yes, but each package manager has it’s (dis-)advantages. It’s great to have flatpak and docker to be able to run software on almost all distros, but the OS still needs a way to update.

Almost all immutable distros use multiple package manager.

• Fedora Silverblue: rpm-ostree + flatpak (+ toolbox)
• OpenSUSE MicroOS: zypper with snapshots (transactional-update) + flatpak (+ distrobox)
• NixOS is unique since it only uses the Nix package manager
• immutable Ubuntu will probably only use snap for OS + apps.

All those OS support distrobox and docker additionally.