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I have to say that with my newfound emacs passion, trying to run a system on Guix is very appealing

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On the other hand if I fall in this rabbit hole will I ever be able to get out of it :p

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@luj I use on my X230, and it’s a good daily driver (though I found it a bit slower than ). But I wouldn’t use it on a server, I’m way too used to systemd, haha. Also, there are too many useful NixOS options in nixpkgs that I wouldn’t have the courage to rewrite. I’ve been using it for more than six months now, and I still haven’t found the motivation to contribute a single time to the Guix sources repository…

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@luj I mean (sorry for telling you the whole story when you didn’t even ask for it… am I a reply guy?) I installed it in the first place because I was curious about the developer experience, and I found it really interesting just to check out the different CLI, naming choices, and system configuration API. I believe every Nix contributor should give it a try, just because it’s good to see how things could be done differently!

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@yvan Do you also have Nix installed on your GuixSD system ? Like for example to continue using direnv and such ?

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@luj Yes! and I even set up home-manager and it’s all working great 😌 I use also nonguix channel for Linux kernel with unfree drivers, etc.

@luj you can find my config here git.sr.ht/~yvan-sraka/guix-con I recently switched to KDE Plasma 6, and even if the Guix manual says it’s not supported, everything works great, I guess I’m only missing PackageKit service freedesktop.org/software/Packa