Asahi Linux is basically top notch engineering for free. Unless it gets (really) big, I don’t see any reason for Apple to even consider putting it down.

I didn’t really mean it in the sense that the communities of different atomic/immutable engage regarding the trade-offs associated by their respective methods of achieving atomicity/immutability. And, honestly, I’d actually love to see more of that. Even if NixOS users would dunk on the rest, at least until the learning curves are brought up.

Instead, what we often find are unproductive threads like this one 😅. In which, naysayers and proponents act like they’re engaging, but I simply fail to understand what’s happening.

There’s also a lot of zealous discourse on the subject of atomic/immutable distros.

First of all, I’m sorry I can’t provide you with a video; I tried attaching it to the post but won’t let me attach any other than photos.

Gifs work.

To determine if a distro is well-established, i.e. that it will not cease existing overnight, you may consider looking at the following factors:

• How long does it exist? Like, if it’s old enough to drink, then that’s definitely a good indication.
• How strong is its community? If there are literally millions of users, many of which actively contribute, then that’s definitely a good thing.
• How active is its development? The Linux landscape is constantly evolving. Hence, adopting changes (or, at least, enabling them) is somewhat to be expected.
• Does it serve a distinct raison d’être? It simply has to offer a strong justification for its existence.
• Does it have any strong dependencies/contingencies? Here, a lack thereof is actually what’s good.

You seem to have the false notion that corporate distros are safe (or something). But, that’s not true. Look e.g. at the demise of Clear Linux OS.

TL;DR: If you want to be absolutely safe, then I’d recommend Arch, Debian or Gentoo. Note that the likes of Alpine, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Ubuntu and Slackware aren’t too far behind, though. I’d personally deem it safe to use any one of 'm.