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People have poked at the immutable desktop from a lot of directions. Some mixed distributions on one system, some delivered a whole OS as an OCI image, and some ran a desktop out of containers. What made the idea usable were two things. bootc turns the OS into an ordinary OCI image that you switch to atomically and roll back from. Project Bluefin proved that people would use a bootc desktop every day, not only as a demo.

Today the landscape has three corners. Fedora Silverblue showed that an atomic desktop could work with rpm-ostree. Universal Blue and Bluefin showed that bootc desktops can run at scale. TunaOS does the same idea on the Enterprise Linux side.