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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
by 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 agoguix-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 agoI 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.