bazzite seems to be so crucial for widespread adoption, watching with great interest!
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The immutability aspect is kind of irrelevant in the end. I've run Linux for decades, and the occasional nuke and pave every couple years just cleans things up IMO. Use a dotfile backup if it really concerns you, but I don't bother other than to keep my ssh keys. I can fix up Plasma the way I like it in about 2 minutes and install the rest of the software as I need it if it isn't already there.
That said, I've run vanilla Fedora KDE for a few years now and never had a reason to reinstall on any of my machines, it Just Werks. And all the instructions for installing/fixing things are relevant.
I tried Aurora and that was a disaster within a few hours, even using the pre-installed Distrobox manager Box Buddy (put in to allow containerized installs to work around the immutability aspect) led to weird things happening like it not being able to clone a box, and when you drilled through all the layers to run the underlying Docker commands, it still failed, for no apparent reason. Install the same stack on vanilla Fedora, no problems. I ended up with trust issues in the underlying OS and I don't need to deal with undiagnosable bullshit like that.