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> You'd lose a lot of software choices. Actually, the restriction to "GNU-friendly software" was what made me skip GuixSD so far. Guix includes free software p
by civodul 8y ago
> You'd lose a lot of software choices. Actually, the restriction to "GNU-friendly software" was what made me skip GuixSD so far.
Guix includes free software packages of all sorts (more than 8k today), be it "GNU-friendly" (whatever that means) or not; you can browse them at https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/browse https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/browse .
> I guess that my WiFi wouldn't work.
Maybe, maybe not; see https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Consider... (the same issue applies to other distros that value user freedom.) Note that you're talking about GuixSD here, not Guix, which can be installed on top of other distros.
In the end the choice is up to each one of us. It's also up to us to determine what to do with hardware companies that deny us, collectively and individually, the right to control the devices they sell us.