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
    3·
    23 days 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.

    • paequ2@lemmy.todayOP
      1·
      22 days ago

      Btw, here’s the guix home configuration file I used to add the contents of flatpak.sh into my ~/.profile, in order to update the XDG_DATA_HOME env var.

      (use-modules (gnu home)
             (gnu home services shells)
             (guix gexp)
             (gnu services))

(home-environment
  (services
    (list
      (simple-service 'flatpak-service
                      home-shell-profile-service-type
                      (list (local-file
                              (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.guix-profile/etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh")
                              "flatpak.sh"))))))