From: wisdomlight--- via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
"help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 09:52:47 +0000 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ1CQ1zvbHnFT6EmB+yYFwcAszZ0baroyj03LzTK7AhBXw@mail.gmail.com>
Below is my response to zimoun email.
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:35, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sherab,
>
> First, you only sent the email to me. Was it your intention? If yes,
> your words should interest the list too. If no, please re-send your
> words to the list or can I use publicly them?
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 23:14, <wisdomlight@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For what it’s worth, I presume I’m the person you are probably thinking about.
>> I am not a developer or any thing like that at all - but I do install my own Linux desktop distribution I can play a little with terminal and enjoy tweaking and finding out things about Linux. I can solve rudimentary issues by looking at the various forums.
>> I tried Guix a while back and did not get anywhere with it. The experience was abysmal- installation was infinitely slow and finally did not happen.
>
> Sad! :-(
> Now, with the binary shell installer, it should be easy. Please report
> on help-guix@gnu.org any of the issue you encounter.
>
> See the doc here [1] especially the note at the top, i.e., download
> [2] and run "bash guix-install.sh".
>
> [1] http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation
> [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
>
>> As Simon said what needs to be clear is what is the benefits I as a user will receive from using guix. What makes it stand out then the other RedHat Debian based distributions??
>
> To help us to figure out or convince you that Guix is awesome, could
> you quickly describe why you were interested in Guix?
> How did you learn the existence of Guix?
> And why did you want to install it?
>
> All the best,
> simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-10 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-02 10:03 How to present Guix to a wider audience Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-02 18:18 ` zimoun
2020-01-08 15:33 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-08 16:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-08 20:18 ` zimoun
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[not found] ` <CAJ3okZ1CQ1zvbHnFT6EmB+yYFwcAszZ0baroyj03LzTK7AhBXw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-10 9:52 ` wisdomlight--- via [this message]
2020-01-10 12:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-02 19:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-08 15:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-14 11:23 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-14 15:58 ` Jack Hill
2020-01-14 17:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-14 21:01 ` Jack Hill
2020-01-14 23:44 ` Dimakakos Dimos
2020-01-15 0:07 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-01-15 8:52 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-15 0:20 ` Josh
2020-01-15 8:57 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-15 5:59 ` Arun Isaac
2020-01-15 8:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-15 8:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-15 17:44 ` sirgazil
2020-01-19 11:03 ` Todor Kondić
2020-01-19 15:57 ` wisdomlight
2020-01-21 21:49 ` ndre
2020-01-22 11:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-22 17:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-23 14:44 ` Kelsang Sherab
2020-01-23 21:25 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-11 7:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-11 17:38 ` Josh Marshall
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