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Dreams do come true , we discussed for something like this in September but I was told immutable ain’t the future now see even KDE is going to switch to immutable way .

Goals

TL;DR: Create a bulletproof OS showcasing the best of KDE that we can proudly recommend to users and OEMs, with a coherent “here’s how you get it” story.

Be "The KDE operating system"
User-friendly; high-quality UX
Doesn't break, or at least easy to recover
Keeping security in mind
No packaging knowledge needed to develop for it
Focus on modern technologies
Attractive for our hardware partners
Any edition can be used as the main system by our developers for internal dogfooding purposes
Support switching between editions/release schedules at any time
Exercise codepaths for containerized apps and immutable base systems, to improve KDE software deployed using these technologies in other environments

Non-goals

Does not have to support the runtime installation of kernel modules. This will prevent the out-of-the-box installation of, for example:

Proprietary NVIDIA kernel driver (for graphics cards older than NVIDIA GTX 16xx). NVIDIA GPUs must either be new enough to use the open-source kernel modules that can be distributed in-tree, or else use Nouveau
VirtualBox (requires out-of-tree modules; QEMU/KVM probably do a better job anyway)
Vendor-specific VPNs that require custom out-of-tree kernel modules that cannot be redistributed with the kernel due to license incompatibility

Source -KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki

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