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I like the way you're thinking. What do you recommend? I haven't played with Linux in about 18 years, (back then it was Ubuntu and Gentoo)... what the going re

• lvncelot 3y ago
  If you like the idea of Nix but are "meh" about the language, you could check out Guix, which does the same thing as Nix but with Guile (Scheme) as the configuration language. (Disclaimer: Still stuck on NixOS, am myself "meh" about the language and have only dabbled in Guix, still need to commit a machine to it)
  • tsuujin 3y ago
    I’m all in on Nix (the package manager) today and use it across multiple Linux and Mac machines to handle my configs and most of my app installs. That said, I still find nix difficult to understand and learn, and when I get stuck on something it seems extremely frustrating to unstick myself. I would love to try Guix, mostly because I think building on an existing language would have solved many of my issues with nix, but the whole point for me is that I want a stable config across all of my platforms; the “non free” restrictions guix poses has gated me from it.
    • inawarminister 3y ago
      guix-nonguix (nonfree) is a bit hush-hush but in my experience works well enough for all hardware drivers and proprietary-adjacent softwares that I need
      • tsuujin 3y ago
        I made an effort to look into this at one point, and discovered that that there are actual rules prohibiting discussing it on the normal communication channels. Made it seem like troubleshooting was going to be way more difficult than it was worth.