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Something I have never understood is why the hard-on with Nix, and Guix is not heard of even a tenth of the times. Is GPL really so repulsive to the masses? Or
by rgreekguy 2y ago
Something I have never understood is why the hard-on with Nix, and Guix is not heard of even a tenth of the times. Is GPL really so repulsive to the masses? Or the libre kernel default?
- sleepydog 2y agoI think guix was just late to the party and the extra steps to setup the nonguix for the non free software like steam is enough of a deterrent for users to go to nix instead. I use guix myself and prefer its use of scheme. I don't mind having a little less guidance and "how-to" articles available if I'm trying something new because I'm comfortable reading its codebase.
- eikenberry 2y agoHow is Guix's repository? One of Nix's biggest draws (I'd say the biggest) is it's expansive package repository.
- dqv 2y agoThat's what it was for me. I'm really fuzzy on the details because this was years ago. When I first heard about Guix, I wanted to try it (even though I didn't understand the benefits) but there was some unfree part I needed to install it. And ideologically they were against that. There either weren't good tutorials on how to bypass it or it was not even possible. So I just didn't install it. FWIW Nix does not allow unfree packages by default or, at least, that's what having to add a package to allowUnfreePredicate makes it feel like.