I’m happy there are use cases. Another person told me to look at rpm-ostree and it looks pretty nice.

But for what you’re saying I do not understand: how is an immutable server better than a normal one. You can setup auto updates; I do not see how rsync would help with that.

I imagine safe backup is nice, but for that you still have to connect keyboard and mouse on an htpc. Possibly not into a managed server, but there you have other layers of resilience anyway.

Sure, you likely have to do less things to fix it; but at this point the annoyance of having to move the keyboard to another room is much greater than 15 minutes figuring out what is wrong and how to fix it.,

Sorry, I’m not pushing back because I dislike the idea. I’ve been introduced to the rpm-ostree and It seems a good idea to me, maybe there’s more nice ideas to find out.