Atomic vs. immutable Linux: Why choose one when these nine distros offer both?

Two Linux distros that look like Windows, but caters to completely different users.

This is my favorite Linux distro of all time - and I've tried them all ...

When I first started using and writing about Linux in the late 1990s, there were just a few distributions to choose from, and even those were a bit hard to discover (unless you knew the right bulletin ...