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Your Experience with Linux, BSD etc
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Ah yeah, I'm in the same situation. My daily driver is arch, but at some point I came across guix and installed it on an old laptop for when I feel like computering in front of the tv or something. Somehow I've even gotten yubi keys to be recognized and usable, but I really feel like someone needs to write an intro to the system-level APIs. The official documentation often feels like it assumes a lot more understanding of this than I do, and I haven't figured out a way to wrap my head around it.
Since it's not mission critical for me though, it's been a fun experience!
One thing that really hurts my Guix experience is that maintainers are not consistent. As in, they'll update a expression, and disappear. And the issue with this is that there's a lot of missing information and context for the new users trying their hand in contribution. I just wish that NodeJS and Crystal were maintained.
Yeah it sucks that Node is on a 2 year old version. I ended up just using a Docker container for that stuff. Weird that Guix has some packages years out of date while others are always bleeding edge.
I've been trying to bump versions, but the damned tests. It takes almost two days to compile on my potato PC, and then finally when it comes to checking tests, it fails. I tried this last month, for almost three weeks, then gave up.