I'm 4 hours into doing a #guix pull... its crashed multiple times I think either from out of memory or gnome going to sleep mid pull, along with all the debugging I had to do because I had some incompatible channel settings... after rebooting and killing X I think this time it'll work. then once the pull is over I can reconfigure the OS... all this is on a Chromebook like Celeron from 2018 with 4GB of RAM. Hopefully the reconfigure works and I can get some zram on here.
Note that on my kids 2021 era i5 laptops this completes in a few minutes. its some combination of small RAM and maybe mild mistakes on my part and slow processor that this takes so long.