• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They refer to the same thing, but people have been preferring “atomic” over “immutable” recently.

    • fuckoffplzkthx@lemmy.today
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      1 day ago

      Atomic is all-or-nothing upgrades / block upgrades instead of individual packages

      Immutable is a read-only operating system root (yes, you have access to /etc, fedora got pedantic about this)

      You can have one, the other, or both, or none.

      See my reply to OP for sources but there are more than just the two I referenced.