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Immutable means that the OS will change itself without asking while you're not looking ?
What do you do when you don't like the change ? I would email Linus about it to complain.
they have an option which lets you turn off automatic updates
and with immutable distro's, you can always rollback to a previous state instantly and not update the OS if you don't want to, just the applications.