Found here: Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops - Fedora Magazine
This post is pretty good as well. Watch the video.
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I agree that Immutable isn’t correct. However, it has taken its own meaning in Linux Desktop community and become its own ‘genre’ of distro (which itself is a very broad term - see the whole “Is Universal Blue a distro?” conversation).
I don’t know if Atomic will take over as a name, given that Atomic is now associated with Fedora and meanwhile you have other OS doing its own version of ‘Immutable’ (VanillaOS, Nitrux, SteamOS) and then there’s the whole Declarative/Composable descriptor which doesn’t necessarily mean ‘Immutable’ but Immutability is often part of the discussion.
The way I see it? Immutable is a genre. Much like how ‘Rock’ is a genre, that has since evolved to have hybrids like ‘Pop Rock’, ‘Heavy Rock’, ‘Prog Rock’, etc. I think it falls upon the time and place you’re discussing the subject - I would just say ‘upbeat electric music’ as the type of music I like if the topic comes up in real life, but I’d specifically say ‘Future Core’ if I’m talking online or with people who’d know about less popular music genre so that they can easily find examples of what I’m talking about.
Yes, I think we should talk about Immutability and Atomicity like it’s Rock and Roll. Embrace that Punk mentality.