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The main thing holding me back from trying guix is that, as far as I know, there is no support for macOS.
by hamandcheese 1y ago
The main thing holding me back from trying guix is that, as far as I know, there is no support for macOS.
- School-Cotton 1y agoCorrect, Guix is Linux and Hurd only.
- agumonkey 1y agoAre people using Hurd still ?
- School-Cotton 1y agoWas anyone ever using it? I assume some nonzero number of hobbyists or true believers still are, but AFAIK those are the only ones who ever were.
- agumonkey 1y agoAt one point arch-hurd had some active members using it enough to update packages
- kwk1 1y agoIt's still pretty early, but there's a "macOS Subsystem for Guix" project: https://superkamiguru.org/projects/msg.html https://superkamiguru.org/projects/msg.html
- hamandcheese 1y agoIf I understand correctly, that seems to virtualize a Linux system to work, which makes it quite different from nix on macOS.
- kwk1 1y agoRight, this is a limited, "Windows Subsystem for Linux"-inspired approach meant to get people on macOS a foot in the door to using Guix (System.) It is at least possible though to use GUI applications from the Guix System VM via XQuartz.