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All of these "immutable" distros will use OSTree under the hood to create a read only filesystem and manage your images, I would recommend checking them out if you want more of a dive into the technology.
Containers, containers everywhere! That is really the whole concept and benefit of an immutable OS. Your underlying OS and libraries become an image you can boot, update, and roll back if needed. Since your system is read only you will run all of your apps as Flatpaks or inside of a toolbox container. The benefit of all of this is additional security and stability. If a new package breaks your system, just rollback to an old one. It's hard to compromise your system too if it is immutable. It is sort of neat to think that conceptually I should never have to worry about borking my system again. But here is where I run into some issues for a typical home Linux user...