Star Labs SystemsHi everyone! Just curious, what Linux distro are you running and what made you choose it?
rival@starlabssystems Hi!
My laptop: Arch (rolling, minimal, flexible)
My desktop: openSUSE (rolling, secure)
Family boxes: Debian (stable, reliable, just works)
LiveUSB: MX (nomadic, works OOTB on any hardware)
Smartphone: LineageOS (much better than Android)
PS: would prefer something fully open/libre (#Guix, #Trisquel, #Parabola, etc.) but some hardware demands blobs...
#arch #linux #gnu #debian #mxlinux #lineageos #opensuse
My laptop: Arch (rolling, minimal, flexible)
My desktop: openSUSE (rolling, secure)
Family boxes: Debian (stable, reliable, just works)
LiveUSB: MX (nomadic, works OOTB on any hardware)
Smartphone: LineageOS (much better than Android)
PS: would prefer something fully open/libre (#Guix, #Trisquel, #Parabola, etc.) but some hardware demands blobs...
#arch #linux #gnu #debian #mxlinux #lineageos #opensuse
Klara! ❤️Guix does have a nonguix channel, which, yes, does add blobs that make it not 100% libre, but you still get a very fun system to configure and learn :)
@boo_ Hi, Klara!, thanks a lot for mention it. 😃
Recently I was asking about on Guix mailing-list and someone mentioned nonguix channel with all the proper warnings.
What let me in doubts was the level of "officiality" of the repo. Is it official? Or at least, is it managed by the Guix project itself?
Just in case, if any problem arises, I would like to know if you can get help dealing with the issue... (I tend to stay with official repos only.)
What's your experience?
TIA, regards! 🤗
Recently I was asking about on Guix mailing-list and someone mentioned nonguix channel with all the proper warnings.
What let me in doubts was the level of "officiality" of the repo. Is it official? Or at least, is it managed by the Guix project itself?
Just in case, if any problem arises, I would like to know if you can get help dealing with the issue... (I tend to stay with official repos only.)
What's your experience?
TIA, regards! 🤗
Due to Guix being a GNU project, the nonguix channel cannot be an official part of the project. With that being said, even though I don't use nonguix myself, it does seem to share a lot of developers with the main repo when I've looked at it. There are support channels available for it, like the nonguix IRC channel, and the Gitlab issues. It is definitely the most well-tested third party channel because so many hardware configurations need firmware blobs. In the user and contributor survey, 66% of respondents using it as a distribution said they used nonguix, so I'd say you're in pretty good company if you do decide to use it.
I understand using only official repos, and I tend to mostly do that myself, but in the case of Guix with nonguix it seems very well maintained. The reason I'm not running it myself is that I wanted to try packaging and maintaining the firmware myself and found it to be very low-maintenance, so I haven't switched back to nonguix.
🗃️@boo_ @rival Nonguix is unaffiliated with Guix. But currently active Nonguix committers are also Guix committers, so both channels may be similar in many aspects.
We have discussions on splitting the Nonguix channel and moving to Codeberg recently. Together with other ongoing changes, this may make the project more accessible and acceptable to the community, if it comes to a result.
We have discussions on splitting the Nonguix channel and moving to Codeberg recently. Together with other ongoing changes, this may make the project more accessible and acceptable to the community, if it comes to a result.
@rival I can tell you're a pro 👀
@starlabssystems Haha! 😆 Not in any sensible way... But thanks a lot anyway for your kindness. ❤️