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Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System Crafters (systemcrafters.net)

submitted 1 week ago by paequ2@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Trying out Guix for the first time! Waiting for packages to download.

I'm a long time Arch user. Any tips?!

I've heard there aren't as many packages for Guix as other distros, but I was thinking Flatpak and distrobox will help bridge the gap for me.

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[–] projectmoon@forum.agnos.is 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I want to love Guix (both the package manager and the distro). I want to love Scheme. But I can never find any good tutorials for Scheme and using it with Guix. The GNU documentation is more of a reference than a tutorial. I use Emacs on the daily, and I just can't get into Scheme.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I use Emacs on the daily, and I just can’t get into Scheme.

Do you find that Elisp and Scheme are too different? I don't know either, so they look almost the same to me.

[–] projectmoon@forum.agnos.is 1 points 1 hour ago

paequ2@lemmy.today I mean... I don't really fully understand Elisp either, despite my Emacs config being 10 years old! 😅