

I think you might want to focus in a slightly different direction in that you want one with controls for power loss on AC that you can set. The physical button doesn’t matter the firmware does.
The Emporia ones I have do have firmware settings for that, but I have zero idea if ALL of them do. I think I got mine 3-4 years ago, so it may be different now with updated versions.












I’ve been building custom immutable distros for more than a decade. They have their place. Desktop and development ain’t that place.
The main application and use-case is obvious: IoT, EDD, consumer devices…etc. Maybe even bare metal if you don’t have proper PXE or other remote image booting. They mean nothing for cloud, because, well, why? They certainly aren’t needed for any container-based work either, because containers.
There’s a reason why devs aren’t adopting them.
Also, on your point about people “accidentally” deleting crucial files, that’s a straw man’s argument. If you have users in any kind of setting where you need a stable and repeatable install, you’re working with mapped network mounts and these users don’t have sudo/root access. If you’re dumb enough to be giving them said access, or deleting these files yourself, well that’s on you.