I have a question for immutable distros: if I want to add a PAM module and configure sudo to use it, what’s the right way? (Or do anything that touches /etc/)?

The userspace vs. system classification doesn’t seem to have nice answers to configuring system components but still having the benefit of the immutable district; it’s all or nothing

The takeaway from the article is this:

  > The latter is a Tool Of Power™ best suited for use only by OS builders and true experts.

Linux used to empower users, now developers want to gatekeep what users can or cannot do on their own computers.