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> [...] anything you do outside of the user space is subject to being wiped the next time you get an OTA update.

You mean outside of /home? This is actually excellent. Rock solid base OS that can be A/B booted, deliver extra apps via Flatpak/AppImage - this is close to what macOS achieved, minus all the crap Apple has been pulling recently. I'm tempted.






> You mean outside of /home?

More precisely it would be /home and /var. Persistant changes can in theory also be done with systemd-sysext, but it isn't exactly the most user friendly thing currenty.

https://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2022/09/13/adding-software-to...




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