I've spent years with immutable Linux - RakuOS fixed my biggest annoyance

Tech Home Tech Services & Software Operating Systems Linux I've spent years with immutable Linux - RakuOS fixed my biggest annoyance Immutable Linux is the future of OS security, but the current distributions do have one particular limitation that RakuOS has overcome. Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer Contributing Writer June 16, 2026 at 5:20 p.m. PT Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET:  Add us as a preferred source  on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways RakuOS is a hybrid immutable/standard Linux distro With RakuOS you get the best of both worlds with security and usability. RakuOS can be downloaded and installed for free. Immutable Linux is about as secure as an OS can get. By mounting certain directories as read-only, malicious code or bad actors cannot affect the data within. I could seriously place my full faith in immutable Linux and not worry about a thing. Until I wanted to install an application using the distribution's built-in package manager. With immutable Linux distributions, software is typically installed via containers, such as Flatpak or Snap. Installation of apps is done this way because of the read-only nature of certain directories. Because of that, standard package managers cannot install the necessary files, so using the likes of apt, dnf, or pacman is a no-go. Also: What is immutable Linux? Here's why you'd run an immutable Linux distro Does that mean you're limited to the apps you have available on an immutable distribution? Somewhat. Don't get me wrong, the average user won't feel as if they're missing out on anything because Flathub and Snapcraft have tons of apps. But when I'm using an immutable distribution, and I want to install something like Ollama, I'm out of luck if I want to ensure I'm using the latest version of the app (I currently run Ollama 0.30.7 on my Pop!_OS desktop). I've attempted to install Ollama via Flatpak, and although the command completes