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I've had an amazing time with it so far. It's so easy to package for (I haven't contributed a package upstream, but I'm working on it). There's like two places you put your configs (/etc/config.scm and .config/guix) and it all just works. Like, I'm not even an emacs user, I don't really use Lisp much, but it's just such a pleasure to work with. I haven't really had any issues with firmware or anything proprietary (old thinkpads ftw), but nonguix and flatpak exist to fix that.

Really the only issue I have is that some software is behind by a version or two, and some things I use haven't been put in the channel yet (but it seems everything I use regularly is either a patch being worked on or already working).

It took a little bit for it all to click, but after finding the cookbook and looking through others configs, it made a lot of sense.

All that said, I'm a bit too committed to Arch to switch my main machine. Hopefully soon though.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You can actually get computers to work with guix without buying like a $6000 Talos II workstation???

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ancient thinkpad. Not really very practical. If you need non-free drivers or firmware you could use the nonguix ISO's.

I wish I had a Talos II, but that's a different discussion.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

How ancient of a Thinkpad are we talkin

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

16 years, abouts. A T500 (w/ wifi dongle). h-node is a useful resource for finding linux-libre compatible hardware.

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