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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by rekado on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:01PM (#23528837)
I'm using Guix System on new Dell servers, old Sun servers, a Dell laptop, a Purism Librem laptop, an old Thinkpad --- it works just fine.

I think the fear of missing drivers when using Linux without blobs is extremely overstated. Yes, certain WiFi cards won't work without blobs, and yes, the 3D graphics situation is not great thanks to NVIDIA and AMD.

> What do you like about it versus a more typical linux or unix?

Oh, so many things... But most important for me is stateless configuration, reproducible builds, no-nonsense application bundles without all that Dockeresk cruft via "guix pack", ad-hoc environments, etc.

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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by jabirali on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:24PM (#23529132)
> 3D graphics situation is not great thanks to NVIDIA and AMD.

AMD is now one of the good guys when it comes to open source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMDGPU

Basically, since 2015, AMD has offered an official driver under an MIT license for Linux and *BSD. Personally, I'm definitely choosing AMD for my next laptop :).

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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by davexunit on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:47PM (#23529456)
Unless things have changed recently, AMD GPUs still require proprietary firmware and thus do not work on a fully free system. I bought an AMD GPU a few years ago to try it out and it didn't work.
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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by tadfisher on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:59PM (#23530668)
As do Intel[1] and Nvidia[2].

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

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