Re: mailing list and Evolution /Email client and: Guix compared with Trisquel/Guix

[Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>]

Thanks very much for the exact answer.

chloris


Am 13.02.22 um 12:46 schrieb David Lecompte:
> Le dimanche 13 février 2022 à 08:43 +0000, Gottfried a écrit :
>> So at the moment I don´t need "Evolution". Icedove works fine
>> at the moment.
> I chose Evolution because it uses the GPG keys maintained by generic
> tools, while Icedove ignores them. However, Icedove is also a good
> choice and I may try it again.
>
>> What`s the difference to install GNU Guix as a system or install
>> Trisquel and Guix on top of it?
> Trisquel is rather user-friendly, especially for users not at ease with
> computers or with GNU/Linux. So I can recommend it to those users so
> that more people use entirely free software.
>
> Trisquel uses stable releases, so any software update will not break
> anything and maintenance work for the user is exactly zero. This is
> also very nice for running servers.
>
> On the web, there are lots of solutions for Ubuntu, most of which work
> with Trisquel unchanged, or with almost no change.
>
> With Guix, you can have newer versions and roll back, and a lot of
> other great things that Ricardo and others can explain. I am trying to
> learn and I thank them for that. However, this is clearly more work
> than Trisquel, probably over what many computer users want.
>
>> I installed Guix as my System because if I had installed Trisquel I
>> would have older software.
> Older software is usually more stable and ok for most users.
>
> Nevertheless, Trisquel provides updates for newer version of the web
> browser (abrowser, based on Firefox) and of Libreoffice. For them,
> Trisquel's versions are actually newer than Guix.
>
> I use Guix on Trisquel mostly for Gajim. I also use Ungoogled Chromium
> for one hardly avoidable website (health care) that does not work with
> Abrowser/Firefox. I also use darktable from Guix, but perhaps the
> version from Trisquel would be fine too.
>
> I want to thank Guix for its option to run on other distros, it is much
> better than Flatpak, Appimage or whatever else. I want to try making
> that even easier, so people running Trisquel can use it more easily.
>
>>   And to add Guix on top of Trisquel seemed to me not so beneficiary
>> and may be leading to inconsistency. To be on the save side I
>> installed Guix as my System in order to run smoothly.
> The risk of inconsistencies exists. I only had one and someone gave me
> a solution on this list (add a line to my .profile). No other issue so
> far.
>
> I may try Guix system at some point, but for now, I am focusing on
> helping Trisquel users, including for them to use Guix on Trisquel.
>
> David.
>