Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%

Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by qqii on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:21AM (#23528217)

This post is a pretty good example, for I don't know of any nix projects that are attempting to work on the bootstrapping problem. Guix pack[0] solves a parallel issue of distributing your nicely dependancy managed ecosystem whereas nix's alternative with nix-bundle barely works.

At the moment neither have gui integration and unfortunately both could use a lot of work with onboarding and beginner (I'm taking non programmers) friendliness.

[0]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack....

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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by ssivark on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:41AM (#23528589)

> At the moment neither have gui integration and unfortunately both could use a lot of work with onboarding and beginner (I'm taking non programmers) friendliness.

I think non-programmer friendliness can wait till there are enough technical users that the superficial daily-experience bugs get ironed out, and also the newbies have a social support system for onboarding. Trying to jump that curve will prove painful in the long term.

I would love to see the guidance and tools for technical users to try this out and start switching over the next few years.

AFAIK, Gnome/KDE or some other DE can be built/installed like any other package, so one can certainly have pretty much any GUI, just like any other Linux distribution.

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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by rudolph9 on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:39AM (#23528550)

I like the container support! Declarative containers is an area where Dockerfiles fall short in my experience.

I’ve been using the NixOS container support which has drastically streamlined and unified the largely similar but many small variations of containers that I use https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-containers

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