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If you're just turning to flatpak, why are you even using guix in the first place?
by 3836293648 4y ago
If you're just turning to flatpak, why are you even using guix in the first place?
- sierkov 4y agoFlatpak is not an OS. Weird question.
- 3836293648 4y agoIf you've turned to a system based on everything being perfectly declarative and reproducible, why would you then add an imperative autoupdating system on top of that? Of course you can, but if you're fine with that kind of system, why would you have turned to guix in the first place? It's not like it's just the popular default and you want to do something else on top, it's a super niche thing based specifically around this and you're breaking the core philosophy
- k__ 4y agoI had the impression, Guix was a package manager and GuixSD the OS?
- sierkov 4y agoIt is all just Guix now. It's both package and systems manager.
- rekado 4y agoThe OS is called "Guix System". Without the system part it's just "Guix". Both variants are very similar. The Guix tool comes with a "guix system" command, which lets you build Guix System containers, container images, system images, qemu VM images, qemu VM scripts, etc. The only command that won't work on a "foreign" distro is "guix system reconfigure" --- but that's only a "guix system init /" away ;)
- xyzzy_plugh 4y agoThis is precisely my confusion.
- woojoo666 4y agoI assume for them, guix + a few proprietary bits is a better compromise than installing Windows