Artyom BologovJun 14

I think I’m going to set up #Debian now. I have a huge problem with some packages conflicting and refusing to build on Arch, hindering the system update. Not cool and will take too much time to resolve for something that shouldn’t’ve even happened. I need a really boring system to base things off, as I care about software and ideas (and ed(1),) and not about drivers and systemd whatever. I just want something that is guaranteed to stay out of my way. So yeah, it’s a values decision.

I am also considering #Guix, but the stance on non-free software and the dire gaming situation is somewhat disincentivizing. No systemd and lack of slop though. Can I install Shepherd on Debian? Is Devuan a good distro? Is SysV too vaporwave with kids these days?

#Plan9 sounds fun too, especially for running in a container on a more secure system.

Show threadमोक्ष / untrusem ⁂Jun 14

@aartaka note :- I am definitely biased about guix.

About your concern on non-free software and gaming situation, I think both of these can be solved with https://nonguix.org. As most of the guix users including me also use it if they don't have libre hardware. Its just a channel like any other, I think I ought to write a guide on installing guix in 2026 because it's more simple now.

#guix #nonguix

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Show threadArtyom BologovJun 14
@untrusem I was a Guix user for a while (3 years? 4?) so I’m aware of both nonguix and guix-gaming-games. The approach, however, does not scale that well: I have a library of 300 games on GOG (and I’m trying to get them off there, as they nazified,) and the only way to play these games on Guix is to write, trial and error, package definitions for every single game with its own libraries and build steps. That’s daunting. So my priority here is to have a system that’s compatible with everything, including games. And then grow weird software out of that.
Show threadGiacomo Leidi
@aartaka @untrusem it's quite scary what you say about gog, do you have any link to understand better what happened?
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Show threadArtyom Bologov6d ago

@paulbutgold see the thread from https://merveilles.town/@aartaka/116750073568779940

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@[email protected] @untrusem yeah, they are. They sent out an SS symbol in one of their newsletters, and their response to that was basically “it’s fine, we didn’t send it to Germans, after all!”

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