Short Summary of the Community Drama of the Linux Distribution “NixOS”, so that you can get the big picture and form your own opinion with the provided sources.

Clarification of the “Steering Comittee” as Project Leadership

Moderation Team resigns in Protest

Technical Leadership works for Military Company, causing Fear of Alignment with Facism.

  • medem
    247·
    6 小时前

    I’ve been saying this for years: Just switch to Guix.

    • An official GNU project;
    • Herd instead of systemd;
    • Uses Linux Libre and only 100% free software;
    • Big, friendly, helpful community;
    • Regular meetups, unconferences and other events;
    • Config is done in an established language (Scheme) instead of an idiosyncratic DSL.
    • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 小时前

      How do you do Flakes with Guix? That’s probably the most important feature Nix has.

      Big, … helpful community

      Not sure I would agree with that lol

    • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 小时前

      I’ve been eyeing Guix for a while but haven’t jumped in yet. Honestly, I feel like I’m finally getting comfortable with nixos and flakes over the years. There’s quite a bit of un/relearning to do, and I can’t tell if the flow of Guix’s channels/inferiors would match the ease of composability that I like with flakes. The lock system really does it for me and I don’t like the idea of hunting down refs to pin manually or maintaining my own frankenstein repo (other than my config).

      That said, I do use emacs and actually like lisp, so I’m torn right now.

    • axx@slrpnk.net
      5·
      3 小时前

      Also, a fraction of packages, users and guides.

      I think Guix is great, but as a NixOS enthusiast who genuinely wanted to try it out, I gave up in the face of the lack of docs for people who aren’t working in lab or have a PhD in computing of some sort.

      Also, how is shepherd better than systems? Genuinely curious.

      Lastly, I agree Nix is not a very enjoyable language, but scheme doesn’t look like a very beginner friendly option either. Could be wrong, I’m not a programmer.

      • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 小时前

        As someone who is curious about Nix but has given up after trying to wade through the myriad and conflicting “getting started” resources for it, I cant imagine how bad guix docs must be for a Nix enthusiast to adandon it.

        • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 小时前

          Guix basically only has the official docs (which has a lot missing in my experience), a single Youtube channel (System Crafters), official issues/mailing list/IRC, System Crafters forum, the source code, toys.whereis.social, and rarely a blog post or random git repo that might have the information you need

          • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            2 小时前

            Im honestly more interested in Nix, as even with all the chaos it feels like it has good technical momentum. I just wish there was something equivalent to Geerlings “Ansibles for devops” or Shotts “The linux command line” for it.

      • medem
        6·
        5 小时前

        Never tried! But I’m assuming it’s a pain indeed. Not even Signal Desktop works out-of-the-box (or maybe at all, haven’t tried either) because of Electron.

        • underisk@lemmy.ml
          152·
          4 小时前

          That sounds like a pretty useless replacement for people who want a declarative configuration and a PC capable of doing anything other than contributing code to open source projects.

          • medem
            2·
            4 小时前

            It seems to me like you didn’t do your homework before posting, since what you write is patently untrue. Guix is actually, primarily, a (very much functional/declarative) package manager which you can also install on top of other Linuces, even RHEL. Then there’s the Guix operating system, which is very much useful for many tasks other than developing free software.