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Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions
tazjin's blog
Another thing that complicates onboarding is the whole nonguix situation: There are no recent ISO images for installers with unfree firmware, and there's only a handful of posts strewn across the internet that will help you get up-and-running. I'm curious why this is: The Guile interpreter has a JIT, and Guix has a more imperative evaluation model which should (unintuitively) be able to avoid some of the work happening in Nix's magic recursive fixpoint sets. I failed to configure the same channels that I used during installation on the machine itself, so now I have to go through at least one more extremely slow guix pull cycle to evaluate and be able to substitute the next config generation, which is already built on nevsky.
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