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10 minutes is still an order of magnitude slower than a nixos-rebuild if you're hitting the cache, and there's no issue with forgetting to rebuild the guix prof
by tadfisher 1y ago
10 minutes is still an order of magnitude slower than a nixos-rebuild if you're hitting the cache, and there's no issue with forgetting to rebuild the guix profile. If you include nonguix (as is required for the 99% of users who need nonfree blobs) you get the 30-50 minutes as described in the article. I believe Nix-the-language being lazily evaluated is a big part of this; you can even inadvertently evaluate nixpkgs multiple times and not notice.
- opan 1y ago>(as is required for the 99% of users who need nonfree blobs) If you forgo the built-in WiFi, the ThinkPad T440p (Haswell) works fine without any blobs (speaking from experience). I think all newer gens need iGPU blobs, sadly, but I wanted to point out a viable middle ground between modern Nvidia gamerware setups and Librebooted X200s that can barely browse the web.