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Re:Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS by vngzs on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:15PM (#31078371)
I like the design of Guix more than NixOS, but I haven't gotten around to actually trying it. The tricky thing about GNU distros is they often make it very difficult to install nonfree packages like Discord. I don't use proprietary software very often, but when I do I prefer to have it available in my distro's package manager.

Besides that, I look forward to giving it a chance.

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Re:Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS by _emacsomancer_ on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:34PM (#31078498)
It's pretty trivial to install whatever you like with Guix. The ability to add channels (~repos) makes it particularly easy. There's, for instance, the nonguix channel: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix and the (nonfree) Guix Gaming Channels: https://gitlab.com/guix-gaming-channels etc.
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