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    3 days ago

    At least as long as you don’t really need WiFi of course…

    Hey, now – the NonGuix repo. exists!

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    For those unfamiliar, it contains software with proprietary elements that otherwise can’t make it into the Guix software repository, à la non-free for Debian.

    You can get the normal Linux kernel and all the hardware compatibility you’d typically expect easily through NonGuix.

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        9 hours ago

        Firefox’s use of Encrypted Media Extensions violates the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines as it allows for playing of DRM-protected content which can steer people to non-free software (there may be additional other reasons but that’s one I definitely know of).

        But it’s perfectly available in NonGuix; I use Firefox regularly on Guix.

        As for Librewolf, I’m not sure that’s accurate? I see it available in the default Guix repo.s, latest version: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/librewolf/.

        It was added about 2 years ago. Admittedly, Guix is a smaller distro so some packages aren’t packaged immediately just as a consequence of a lack of human resources; but it also continues to improve over time, quite nicely.