What are your opinions of Guix?
Reposting because it looks like federation failed.
I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?
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Reposting because it looks like federation failed.
I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre user here. On paper, GNU Guix System looks exactly what I want from an operating system. The problem I have with it is the software repository full of severely outdated packages. Heck, last time I checked GNOME was three major versions behind. This is a deal breaker for me. It's a downside that I don't see coming up often in discussions.
This is the case for me as well. I tried NixOS this weekend, and even though it has more adoption than Guix, it still does not have 100% coverage of all software I wanted. That said, the packages I did install were pretty up-to-date. I guess NixOS is as close to "critical mass" as we've got when it comes to this type of OS. But if I were a wizard devops type person with more time, I'd probably enjoy Guix more.
It's a bit of a nitpick, but I'd argue there's more than one critical mass, and NixOS is already there for the purposes of tinkerers and some early adopters. General Linux people are next, and it's probably not quite there, which is I think what you're getting at.
Since it's the frontrunner as you point out, I have high hopes it will make it.
I've found that the unstable branch of nixos has almost all the packages that I want / need at the bleeding edge. For more obscure packages I build from source.
Interested to hear what packages you were chasing that are outdated / not present.
Keeping a community going is a beast all on it's own, which is probably what's missing. Lemmy was pretty dead before Reddit refugees arrived too, or so I hear.