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Also switched to Silverblue and love it.

Ubuntu wasn't especially bad, it was more that Silverblue made so much sense. It fixed the issues I was having with other distros where messiness would creep into my setup over time.

I also tried NixOS, but it felt too rigid. Silverblue offered the same benefits of immutability without a loss of flexibility.

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Do you do development on it? If so, how do you work around Silverblue's restrictions? Curious about people's experiences.

I do. I use toolboxes for pretty much all my development. I've scripted the setup each type of toolbox I use, so they can be reproduced. I use a terminal editor (neovim), but I think it's possible to run vscode from a toolbox too[1].

For graphical apps (browsers etc.) the flatpaks are very handy.

The above setup means I don't really need to layer much in the OS, mainly drivers and common terminal utilities.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/107lvlf/silverblue_...

It's a great design for development since your dev environments are isolated and you can have multiple, without risking breaking your main OS.

I use a combination of toolbox, distrobox, flatpak, docker, homebrew, junest and custom bwrap scripts.

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