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I wanted to use guix, but I wanted more strongly to be able to use the same dot file repo across all my computers and cloud servers. Guix refuses to support an
by tsuujin 4y ago
I wanted to use guix, but I wanted more strongly to be able to use the same dot file repo across all my computers and cloud servers.
Guix refuses to support any non FOSS hardware (like my MacBook) so that was a deal breaker for me.
- gigatexal 4y agoThat is likely going to be its Achilles heel :-/
- spit2wind 4y agoIs what you want not Guix Home? https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Home-Configuration.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Home-Configur... Yes, Guix does not support non-Free software. However, nothing prevents you and others from supporting it. I'm fact, it can be and is distributed through channels. If I recall, this is the most prominent: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
- snicker7 4y agoI think they are asking for MacOS support (which Nix supports). Not possible with Guix except through a VM.
- guilhas 4y agoI thought like that, but after using Guix and Nix I feel like those unified configurations are onto something. Launch your entire system from a sigle config file, avoid forgotten commands
- tsuujin 4y agoYes, this is what I use Nix for. I’m saying I wanted to use Guix but I have MacBooks that I need to support, and Guix doesn’t support Darwin (the macOS system) so I went with Nix.