• dino@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    We need more GUIX here. Not using the distro but really interested in knowing more about it. Hype seems to be solely focused on NixOS lately.

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          1 year ago

          Guile and Guix is way better documented than Nix. The language have more features, so you don’t have to use a hack to load packages, can actually know what is accepted in a function instead of blindly copying what others do, and it comes with a formatter.

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        1 year ago

        I think the language is harder but more powerful than Nix’s.
        Imo a better manual and examples would help a lot.
        I’d say one of the biggest issues is the one with proprietary drivers - you can’t really find examples and guides on how to get drivers working because it’s kept hush-hush, and to install them yourself requires knowledge on how to set things up, knowledge which beginner users don’t have ofc.
        I’m a big fan of Guix and Guile but atm I couldn’t switch over due to this.

      • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        Building a kernel

        Can’t you just use the standard Linux kernel? You can just tell GUIX to use the standardized kernel in its config file