• paequ2@lemmy.today
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    7 hours ago

    How do you do Flakes with Guix?

    Good question. I haven’t gotten there yet… but I hear yeah, something with channels.scm and time-machine? I haven’t tried that workflow yet. Also, something about inferiors?

    NixOS/Home Manager … with Guix I had to use dotfiles directly which is less powerful

    I actually found that I like using the home-dotfiles-service-type because I already have everything in dot files. Although, I have a very simple setup, so I’m not sure more powerful features would be useful for me… maybe? idk.

    aarch64 Guix is way bugger

    Ah, ok. I haven’t tried this.

    half of the large packages wouldn’t compile a lot of the time

    Hm, weird. Maybe this has gotten better? I haven’t had a problem with anything compiling yet. I did run into a bug with Obsidian not launching correctly and that took a few weeks to resolve, I think.

    Guix is definitely lacking manpower for sure, but I’m vibing with the foundations so far. So I’m hoping things get better over time.