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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    6 hours ago

    Hardware must be well supported in fully-libre-land … had to go nonguix pretty much right away.

    Yep, same here. I started with nonguix. I didn’t realize it was easy to add additional channels.

    Profound meditation and enlightenment on the essence of Scheme is a must. I had one of those ‘no, this is where you don’t want a closing brace’ moments and my zen was blown out of the water.

    Aaaah. I juuuust had this happen to me. Took me a bit to balance the parens again! 😂 Although, so far Scheme seems nicer than Nixlang. I’ve also had curiosity to learn a functional language, so Guix gives me a reason to learn about functional programming.