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Immutable Linux for low end PCs?
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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Yes, but as I said, on a 4GB budget, this matters quite a bit. I run thousands of edge devices on a custom distro with similar constraints, and it adds up quickly. It's not that it's insurmountable or anything, but I'm answering the question asked and not getting into the particulars. It's just a known fact.
FWIW I switched over to Nix recently, and discovered that deploying builds over SSH is a first-class feature.
I wired up remote build pushes from my workstation to my underpowered VPS + antique thinkpad, and it’s been 100% painless. You can definitely make immutable work on <1 GB memory without much fuss if you’re not locked into a single-device model.