I’ve had an amazing time with it so far. It’s so easy to package for (I haven’t contributed a package upstream, but I’m working on it). There’s like two places you put your configs (/etc/config.scm and .config/guix) and it all just works. Like, I’m not even an emacs user, I don’t really use Lisp much, but it’s just such a pleasure to work with. I haven’t really had any issues with firmware or anything proprietary (old thinkpads ftw), but nonguix and flatpak exist to fix that.

Really the only issue I have is that some software is behind by a version or two, and some things I use haven’t been put in the channel yet (but it seems everything I use regularly is either a patch being worked on or already working).

It took a little bit for it all to click, but after finding the cookbook and looking through others configs, it made a lot of sense.

All that said, I’m a bit too committed to Arch to switch my main machine. Hopefully soon though.

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, you can install non-free software, if you really want. I mentioned it in the post, but you can use nonguix or guixrus. They are separate channels, and you just copy like 5 lines into your config (or maybe another few, if you want substitutes). I’ve tried NixOS as well, but I find scheme to be more pleasant than Nix’s DSL (even though I like Haskell). Also, the Guix home-manager equivalent is built-in. It was just a few small things like that, that made me find Guix to be more pleasant overall.

      • Paradox5240 [he/him,any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        NixOS has much more packages, and they are more up to date. Honestly, it is a shame because there are many things about Guix I prefer (especially its license). Also, if you are a developer, it is really nice getting to use nix flakes to set up your development environments.