info about suitable distro with guix

info about suitable distro with guix

[Simone Salsi]

Hi everyone,

first of all I'd like to thank you the community for the great job about
Guix, I think it's really game changing.

I played around a little with GuixSD and while I think it's a really
good system unfortunately I'm still unable to properly used it on a day
by day basis on my laptop.

I therefore have a question:

Any advice about using Guix as a package manager on top of another
distro? wouldn't it have problems with the distro's native package manager?

Is there any Guix-friendly distro that you can recommend?


Thank you a lot,


Simone

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Re: info about suitable distro with guix

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 15 février 2020 11:23:02 GMT-05:00, Simone Salsi <thedos@terminus.space> a écrit :
>Hi everyone,
>
>first of all I'd like to thank you the community for the great job
>about
>Guix, I think it's really game changing.
>
>I played around a little with GuixSD and while I think it's a really
>good system unfortunately I'm still unable to properly used it on a day
>by day basis on my laptop.
>
>I therefore have a question:
>
>Any advice about using Guix as a package manager on top of another
>distro? wouldn't it have problems with the distro's native package
>manager?
>
>Is there any Guix-friendly distro that you can recommend?
>
>
>Thank you a lot,
>
>
>Simone

Hi Simone,

Well the really gneat distro on which guix works best is the guix system :p

Seriously, if that's not an option, then any other distro will work. Guix is designed to be completely isolated from any other package manager, so no bad interaction is possible. The only thing you have to remember is to not mix package sources in a development project.

For a list of distros we could recommend, see the list of fully free distros on https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html.