Wow. That’s a fantastic description. Thank you so much.
How you explained it makes so much sense to me. I’m not sure whether or not I like it as a model (I see both pros and cons), but now it definitely makes sense.
Here’s just a little stream of consciousness of my thoughts on it…
I like it because it’s trivial to go back to a working base. You know your system is working, so you create a ‘layer’, and you’re good. It’s basically a snapshot, but I think more powerful (I need to learn more details to understand why I think it’s probably more powerful, but intuition is suggesting it is).
I’m not so sure I like it because I often perform actions in batches. When I have free time, I might install 3 apps. Let’s say 1 has a problem, but the other 2 are fine. Now what? Unless the problematic app happened to be the last app installed, I won’t have a layer that has what I want (just the 2 good apps).
Thoughts?