From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: common software Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:14:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20180128122259.77acba52@jasniac.instanton> <871si9twey.fsf@elephly.net> <87o9lck393.fsf@gnu.org> <86372o7bkv.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egEsk-0005kw-ND for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:14:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egEsj-0008P1-VE for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:14:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86372o7bkv.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: myglc2@gmail.com Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, Marco van Hulten Dear, I am not using GuixSD, just trying to do some "hello world". I agree that it is disturbing to not find "classical" tools and to not feel at home. But it is because the paradigm is different. And yeah! it is hard to change of paradigm. :-) With classical distro, you always need root privileges to install/remove stuffs. With Guix, you need them only once at install time. Why not provide different default flavoured profiles ? Say, desktop, www, ssh-server, etc. As Debian-installer proposes. This provides an entry point to learn by examples how to manage profiles, create ones, etc. And this allows newcomer as me to be directly reward, lowing the entrance barrier of a new system. What do you think ? All the best, simon