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What a bad analogy. Betamax was superior to vhs.
by 0des 5y ago
What a bad analogy. Betamax was superior to vhs.
- fuzzy2 5y agoYes and yet it failed. That's what GP is saying: Guix may well be better, but it is even less popular than Nix and thus at (greater) risk of dying.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoI don’t think GUIX will ever die, it seems to be the GNU Foundation’s favorite. It’s the only GNU-approved distro whose website is a sub domain of gnu.org. GNU seems to be unofficially standardizing on GUIX. https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html https://guix.gnu.org/ https://guix.gnu.org/
- rekado 5y agoThere is no GNU foundation. The reason why there is guix.gnu.org is because we asked the GNU sysadmins to delegate the DNS record to our own server. Any other GNU package can do that, and some have. Guix is certainly not favoured by those who see themselves as leading the "project". GNU is hardly even a project in the traditional sense. Guix on the other hand is.
- xena 5y agoBetamax was superior to VHS, but it lost to VHS because you could record an entire football game on one VHS tape. GNU is football games in this metaphor, because the GNU+obsession that Guix has is what is really holding it back from wider success. Nix/NixOS is kinda shit, but at least you can easily run closed source software on it.
- _emacsomancer_ 5y agoYou can easily add channels in Guix to install nonfree software, e.g. Steam. I don't even have to do a Nix-style `allowUnfree`.
- colordrops 5y agoWhy is it bad? that is my point. Guix has several design features that improve over Nix, but a much smaller user base.