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asterism OP wrote

Its honestly long enough that I am going to recommend that anyone who does this does it just before going to bed so they can get it started and it will be done when they wake up.

tbf My computer is old as fuck, but damn. and it doesnt help that its installing all this superflous stuff either.

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Archaplain wrote

is it a source based distro or are all packages binaries?

i might have missed a post or two but why did you want to go with guix again? i am really curious.

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asterism OP wrote (edited )

It has a mixture of both. Turns out my "new" (old laptop got killed by water this one is 15 yrs old) computer cant handle it so I wont be sticking with it.

Do you know anything about nix/guix? Let me see if I can find the comment where I explain it.

edit: https://raddle.me/f/Linux/148085/-/comment/260283 thats the gist of what its about and why I was interested in it.

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Archaplain wrote (edited )

oh wow my comical short-term memory strikes again, i remember that comment now, i think even wrote a note to self somewhere that i would give it a try in a VM lol. Tell me if its worth getting into.

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asterism OP wrote (edited )

I mean, my computer is literally too slow to handle it so as of right now I have no useful opinion and I am going to have to distro hop again.

but if ever decide to slap it onto my desktop I will let you know.

edit: I mean I guess its useful to know that it doesnt run on old hardware (though this computer struggles if I have two tabs open in firefox) and that by default it installs a lot of unnecessary stuff (though I imagine that can be configured some how) its also useful to know that in true gnu fashion much like parabola or Trisquel it defaults to only free software though you can do nonfree stuff. (I have to do nonfree to use my wificard)

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