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or I could keep doing the thing that has worked in a consistent manner for me for years rather than gratuitously do something different, of course.
by davidgerard 4y ago
or I could keep doing the thing that has worked in a consistent manner for me for years rather than gratuitously do something different, of course.
- anthk 4y agoWell, Guix it's a universal solution over any distro, ensuring that whatever thing you install with it, it will get the correct dependencies with no dependency hell, ever. You can even have different library versions for different software. Guix will handle then in the background.
- atahanacar 4y agoI'm glad this is not the default way of thinking for everyone, because if it were, we'd never see any progress.
- davidgerard 4y agoI'm glad I have the choice not to follow desktop "innovation", because I was here for the history of GNOME 3, and Xfce's lack of ambition keeps proving correct. CADT is not, in fact, a good idea.
- anthk 4y agoXFCE4 has been enhanced a lot.
- davidgerard 4y agoand without pulling a GNOME 3
- anthk 4y agoYou can set up an XFCE desktop with ease from the Guix installer (Guix System, as a standalone distro). I know, it's odd to setup compared to any other distro , because the main recommended usage it's to pin a desktop/nm services and such as system packages and the rest to be installed with "guix package -i foo bar...", such as Firefox, Libreoffice... But the rollback features from the Grub menu and ensuring no dependency hell, ever, can be golden for production cases and for reproducibility in science, for instance.
- davidgerard 4y agoyou're coming across as having a much greater interest in wedging in a promotion for Guix than anything else