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Aight, I actually don't know a lot about it, but I guess something that looks like an answer is better than none. So without further a due.
First of all, Nitrux is quite unique, so I won't be able to do it justice regardless. However, I'd say that it being an 'immutable' distro with OpenRC and focusing on AppImage (over Flatpak/Snap) is the primary one. It's important to note that Nitrux' model doesn't allow you to install .deb packages natively at all. So in that regard, it's one of the less flexible among its 'immutable' siblings. It does offer great support for Distrobox, so you can install your debs, rpms and from the AUR etc if you so desire within a container instead; you can even install other desktop environments with this. Waydroid works. AppArmor is configured. KDE Plasma looks fantastic on Nitrux, but they offer even more spice through their Maui Shell.
While I wouldn't switch to it (I'm not the target audience, I have very specific needs and workflow, currently only truly accomplished on NixOS), this is one of the worthwhile projects, it seems. A lot of distros are just Debian, Ubuntu or something else with a DE slapped on top, some customisations and Calamares, but this has something more to offer, and I respect that. OpenRC, focus on AppImage, and to a lesser extent immutability, are very rare, so it's good to have a system that offers these. I think this has some compelling selling points, for example it's the only non-systemd immutable distro I know of, and it's also the only distro I know of that's pushing AppImages. We need such uniqueness, and it should be mentioned more often, and should be celebrated.
I hope I'm not annoying anyone, but it's ado.
I'm veryy intrigued my Maui Shell, conceptually it looks like the best convergent shell I've ever seen.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like development is very active.
Seems like an interesting concept I appreciate the explanation! I like the idea of an immutable OS. I tried vanilla os but I had some coding projects that relied on my GPU and distrobox just wouldn't give it access. Love the idea of an immutable distro but I'll wait for this to mature and see how Vanilla does when it moves to Debian.