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YES! That's my plan! I think I just figured out how to configure
flakpak
a little better.These are only part of the steps needed: https://flatpak.org/setup/GNU%20Guix
You also need to source
~/.guix-profile/etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh
in order to get the desktop icons to show up in the GNOME app launcher. (Usingguix home
for that!)Need to work on getting distrobox setup next. I was able to
guix install distrobox
, but it requires some extra configuration apparently.Btw, here's the
guix home
configuration file I used to add the contents offlatpak.sh
into my~/.profile
, in order to update theXDG_DATA_HOME
env var.