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Reader supplied reviews for Guix System Distribution
Average rating
8.2 from 13 review(s)
Version: 0.16.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-04-08
Votes: 3
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I think this "distro" is the future. It solves a lot of issues. Dependency nightmares mostly go away. The roll-back feature is so long overdue and is welcome and really useful and easy to use. But the learning curve is steep if you're not used to guile/scheme language. The install went fine but install to a VM or a separate disk because it demands to install a bootloader. Grub is used for the roll-back feature so I guess there's no way to decouple the guix installed bootloader. (Maybe there is but I couldn't see how.)
Since I'm new to it Guix System reminds me of a text based dungeon crawler. East -> you were just eaten. West -> you were eaten, again. .... etc., etc. (^:
But it's good and everyone should try it to see the future of linux. Oh and reproducibility is built-in, which is HUGE.
Version 1.0 is allegedly on the horizon. Well some horizon. Might be a moving horizon. (^;
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Version: 0.16.0
Rating: 3
Date: 2018-12-06
Votes: 3
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Ouch! This distro is painful to install and after I was able to get it up and running it was very unstable and froze just moving the mouse. I'm not completely sure that it's the O/S's fault as I installed it as a VM.
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Version: 0.15.0
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-11-18
Votes: 12
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I was interested in switching to GuixSD from Gentoo, as I like the concept of having your entire system config defined in a single file, and having transactional system "states".
Install is relatively easy (even though it took me around 10 attempts). I had to merge the barebones.scm bios grub-boot and the lightweight-desktop.scm desktop's config, to get it working with i3-wm.
Compared to my Gentoo stack, I had 1000 extra packages. Coupled with the fact that most of these have to be compiled from source (very little substitutes (binaries) provided from the build farm), installs and upgrades take forever. Do to some bug, most versions of rust only compile with 1 or 2 threads. I think I had 5 version of rust required on my computer. Imagine the compile time.
IceCat: It just sucks. I didn’t think it would suck, but it does. It is not firefox. I cannot get Stylus, Old-Reddit, and many addons installed. For some reason, it does not seem to be compatible with many firefox addons. This makes it nearly useless for me.
Lack of: System-config-printer, Printer Drivers, xsane, Cadence.
Broken: virt-manager
Libre Issues:
I love libre software. I love the FSF. I hate libre-distros. They make it really hard for me to work with people outside, that do not use or know about libre-software. No flash for websites that need it. Also like I said, icecat doesn’t even work with many firefox addons, and you can’t install firefox because it’s non-free. Great.
Paths:
Everything is installed in different directory’s (/gnu/store) and applications don't know this. Currently my bash shell understands no commands except “pwd” and “whoami”. It’s fubared. That’s with copying system-paths using guix package –search-paths. I don’t even know anymore, I’m back to Gentoo for now.
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