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can you elaborate what do you love about guix?

aijony 5y ago
Not OP but here are some of mine: - Universal package manager (replaces pip, cabal, npm, etc.) - Declarative OS-config which makes deploys on new devices and servers a breeze - Scheme declaration language (I prefer it to Nix-lang) - Bootstrapable from 512 byte binary [1] - I can build a package from source or download the binary - Easily modify package source, deps, or compiler [2] Cons: - No official nonfree software [3] - Smaller package set than Nix - No KDE yet and old version of Gnome (it takes a lot of work to update) Neutral: - No systemd - Works with GNU Hurd - No MacOS or BSD support (yet) [1] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/ https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-boots... [2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Variants.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Va... [3] https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
- ajklsdhfniuwehf 5y ago
  > no systemd i was on this front for a long time, but now it feels like a lost cause. What guix suggest for managing services/containers/chroots/cgroups?
  - BrightGlow 5y ago
    Guix includes some containerization support: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/927a46dc754770ec52d3ac047b58a1ac6fbb6a64/CONTAINERS.org https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/927a46dc754770ec52...
podiki 5y ago
Similar to aijony, and something I will be writing in a followup article. Off the top of my head, and based on my experience so far, my biggest would be: 1. Guix is written in Guile Scheme, and I love anything Lisp (a joy to work with) 2. System configuration in one file, no more remembering all the random /etc/ files or tweaks here and there, it is all together 3. Easy package transformations: update source, different git branch, add a patch 4. Rollbacks of both the system configuration and packages (something breaks, just go back) 5. Minor, but user installation of packages is nice, rarely need to reach for sudo now 6. Active and friendly community. The project has plenty of steam I'd say, but is small enough you can get involved and contribute. I've enjoyed writing some patches and packages. 7. Overall, just a different way of doing a distro and running a system (nix is similar). It has been fun to learn and use, getting me excited for Linux again.

Not OP but here are some of mine: - Universal package manager (replaces pip, cabal, npm, etc.) - Declarative OS-config which makes deploys on new devices and servers a breeze - Scheme declaration language (I prefer it to Nix-lang) - Bootstrapable from 512 byte binary [1] - I can build a package from source or download the binary - Easily modify package source, deps, or compiler [2] Cons: - No official nonfree software [3] - Smaller package set than Nix - No KDE yet and old version of Gnome (it takes a lot of work to update) Neutral: - No systemd - Works with GNU Hurd - No MacOS or BSD support (yet) [1] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/ https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-boots... [2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Variants.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Va... [3] https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

ajklsdhfniuwehf 5y ago
> no systemd i was on this front for a long time, but now it feels like a lost cause. What guix suggest for managing services/containers/chroots/cgroups?
- BrightGlow 5y ago
  Guix includes some containerization support: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/927a46dc754770ec52d3ac047b58a1ac6fbb6a64/CONTAINERS.org https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/927a46dc754770ec52...

podiki 5y ago

Similar to aijony, and something I will be writing in a followup article. Off the top of my head, and based on my experience so far, my biggest would be: 1. Guix is written in Guile Scheme, and I love anything Lisp (a joy to work with) 2. System configuration in one file, no more remembering all the random /etc/ files or tweaks here and there, it is all together 3. Easy package transformations: update source, different git branch, add a patch 4. Rollbacks of both the system configuration and packages (something breaks, just go back) 5. Minor, but user installation of packages is nice, rarely need to reach for sudo now 6. Active and friendly community. The project has plenty of steam I'd say, but is small enough you can get involved and contribute. I've enjoyed writing some patches and packages. 7. Overall, just a different way of doing a distro and running a system (nix is similar). It has been fun to learn and use, getting me excited for Linux again.