> core parts of the system are locked down to prevent unwanted changes and corruption from third-party applications or a faulty update. Correct me if I'm wrong

> core parts of the system are locked down to prevent unwanted changes and corruption from third-party applications or a faulty update. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they just mean they mount the root filesystem as read-only, and have a separate partition for /var and /tmp ? That's a reasonable idea, although I'm not sure it merits an entire distribution. Is there anything else to Vanilla or is it just this? > The GNOME Desktop is the perfect environment for your daily tasks Maybe if you're a GNOME developer, and even then I kind of doubt it. > designed to be a reliable But it's based on ubuntu, which uses systemd, which is something not to be relied on, in many respects; see: https://www.without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Arguments_against_systemd/ https://www.without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Arguments_aga...