![]() The user experience has likely improved since this review. Like NixOS, Guix System (neé SD) includes extra functionality for managing the underlying system but for the most part it isn't necessary to use guix productively. The package manager is more than enough to be productive with guix. If you stop liking guix you can delete the store and clean up the symbolics links in your home directory. It installs everything to the guix store and only accesses stuff through a profile that you can add to your path. If you would rather stick to your distro guix will mostly be out of your way. I'm going to be real: I don't know what LVM is and don't care so I can't help you with that. I've even used it to test drive some python projects my coworkers are working on. Besides that I have been able to find every utility or library I need in order to be productive with my work stack of clojure and nodejs. With some setup you won't even notice the difference. If you cannot a gui app in the package repository you can always use flatpak. In fact I've been working from my personal laptop during quarantine for the past three months with no issue. I run guix on a 2015 Chromebook pixel so I can answer some questions. Lack of LVM can suck I suppose but in my opinion you're probably better off just using something like btrfs to replace that functionality anyway. ![]() Not really sure where the issue stems from but it definitely exists and is noticeable whenever you're updating your system. Not in terms of day to day usage of your computer but rather in terms of the speed of the package manager. My only real gripe is that it's just slower than Nix. You can also apparently install Nix in Guix and use all the packages that are part of nixpkgs but I haven't tried that. If you need more you can always set up nonfree channels (similar in certain aspects to the concept of repos) or use flatpak. The package list is pretty extensive but it is free software only. But I've only been using it for about a month so don't know how long that stability will last long term. However switching to linux is pretty easy and once that's done I think Guix is just as stable as Nix. Running linux-libre there's just going to be a lot of issues that naturally come up with using Guix on almost any remotely modern hardware. Initial setup is not comparable at all to Nix. I'm running Guix on a 2018 Dell Inspiron laptop. Might as well add my own opinion as a relatively new Guix user who's had some experience with Nix. Subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Sha256sum mismatch textadept_7.8.i386.tgzĭpkg: error processing textadept (-configure): The file is already fully retrieved nothing to do. Works just fine!Įxcept - apt (?) still thinks I have a corrupt download pending, and keeps giving the same error message. The icon was still present on my dock bar, but gone from the system menu.)Īfter trying various "fixes" (like apt-get purge, and starting over) all with the same results - the system thinking I have a corrupt download - I simply downloaded the textadept_ file from, and bunged it into /opt/textadept myself. (It lives in /opt/textadept, and this vanished. In fact, the Textadept install disappeared from my system. ![]() However, I must have got a corrupted download (see various error code/log entries), and the upgrade failed. I get this via the WebUpd8 PPA, and have done for some time (this is pretty routine). Yesterday I attempted to upgrade my installation of the Textadept editor in my Linux Mint 13 ("Maya") LTS Xfce 32-bit system (based on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise).
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