The real problem is config drift. You have to maintain a lot of little fixes over time as you operate vanilla Linux. I’ve run fedora atomic (and rebased to bazzite when it got fairly big) since it launched years ago with only one relatively minor hiccup that was resolved by a single line in terminal (rpm-ostree rebase). You can layer stuff over it to modify the base image and clear it if something breaks, whereas manually removing critical packages and being sure to clear every file would be a nightmare on any other distro. It’s an extremely hands off experience that works just like git does and is very bullet proof and reproducible.

I like putting it on old people’s computers. It’s perfect for a seamless experience.