Trying out Guix for the first time! Waiting for packages to download.

I’m a long time Arch user. Any tips?!

I’ve heard there aren’t as many packages for Guix as other distros, but I was thinking Flatpak and distrobox will help bridge the gap for me.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todayOP
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    7 hours ago

    use something like distrobox, bottles, flatpak to run extra software

    YES! That’s my plan! I think I just figured out how to configure flakpak a little better.

    These are only part of the steps needed: https://flatpak.org/setup/GNU Guix

    You also need to source ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh in order to get the desktop icons to show up in the GNOME app launcher. (Using guix home for that!)

    Need to work on getting distrobox setup next. I was able to guix install distrobox, but it requires some extra configuration apparently.