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tucnak ◴[] No.45105862[source]
It's a shame that yet another project (bcachefs in Linux kernel) and now guix are getting ostracized out of mismanagement... on whoever's part, although in all honestly, and this is a hot take mind you; guix should either be run on bare metal, to take advantage of its bootstrap-from-source, thus avoiding debian in the first place, OR be running as guest, in some fantasical gnu hurd environment, thus forgoing linux.

I say this as a long-term guix user.

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giancarlostoro ◴[] No.45106195[source]
> I say this as a long-term guix user.

Curious, what is your need / use case? I typically just stick to the package manager for whatever OS I install, if I don't like theirs, I find a new OS.

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trelane ◴[] No.45107172[source]
If you install guix as a user, it augments or overrides the software available on your base system.

It helps a lot on Chromebooks, where it's not straightforward to get a recent release.

It also helps to get up-to-date packages if you're a regular user and your admin doesn't have them for some reason (maybe RHEL or Ubuntu LTS.)

Or even just if your admin doesn't have the packages installed.

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felixg3 ◴[] No.45107887[source]
I feel like that brew, or better yet, nix are great options for userspace applications in Linux and macOS
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1. trelane ◴[] No.45107934[source]
Sure, there are other options for this. But this is certainly a use case for guix, which is what the poster was asking about.