A beginner's perspective on migrating a home server from Arch Linux to GNU Guix, comparing with NixOS, what works well, and handling practical issues.
  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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    11 days ago

    The prospect of writing packages for everything that isn’t libre doesn’t seem very appealing. They should have a repo with libre stuff and another with whatever doesn’t for their definition.

    This exists already - the nonguix channel on gitlab. You can also easily distribute your own channel with a git repo of package definitions. Say you want to publish a channel that is specially geared and curated to left-handed people, you can do that, much in the way as you can publish an Ubuntu PPA, and it will integrate seamlessly into Guix.

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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      10 days ago

      This exists already - the nonguix channel on gitlab.

      Interesting. It still looks like it needs a lot of contributions. I think I’d need a substantial amount of work to get Guix running on my PC with the software and hardware I use. Gaming seems like it would be an absolute chore. Anyway, good that the repo exists.

      You can also easily distribute your own channel with a git repo of package definitions.

      Yeah, it’s like NixOS.

      Probably Guix does fit my conviction more than NixOS, but the amount of work necesary at the moment seems daunting and I don’t have the time for that.

      • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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        10 days ago

        It still looks like it needs a lot of contributions. I think I’d need a substantial amount of work to get Guix running on my PC with the software and hardware I use.

        Could be.

        But why should people which want to create, share, and use free software do that work for you?