distrowatch article about guix system

distrowatch article about guix system

[Michael Zucchi]

Morning,

I'm not if this is the appropriate place but here's a reasonably 
thorough look at the new user experience for the guix system which may 
be of interest.  In summary it was a somewhat rocky.

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190624#guixsd

I haven't done much more than install it myself, but one line in 
particular jumped out at me:

    In short, we should either already know how to use Guix or have a
    second computer available to look up documentation and examples.

Actually my initial take was that it was the documentation itself that 
assumes you already know how to use it.  The jargon was a quite heavy 
for example.  The author also notes the poor performance of the package 
manager, and I concur - even using considerably more powerful hardware 
than they did although I also installed it in VirtualBox.

Regards,
  !Z