Linux

For sure, immutability is a point of the distro, but I have other reasons for using it. Namely, hardware-enablement and nice dev experience additions.

There's definitely value in immutability, but sometimes I wish I could temporarily disable it so I can do what I need to, while easily retaining those changes on updates.

The main program that I'm unable to install is espanso. It's an open source text-expansion program that has become invaluable to me and the way that I type.

I can build it from source, create an RPM for it, and even try layering it with rpm-ostree, but even then, I have the problem of missing libraries, like wxGTK*. Sure, I can technically manually acquire those libs and use ldconfig to configure them in a writable directory, but at that point, you're basically suffering through a dependency nightmare that isn't worth maintaining.

For stuff like that, I really wish that I could just scrap the immutability and simply install some more system-level packages like that more easily.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the reason I can't simply layer the wxGTK* libs and the RPM manually: espanso requires slightly different versions of the libs, and if I could simply symlink the newer versions that are available in the Silverblue repositories to the slightly older versions that espanso requires, I could probably get it to work.