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What is your preferred daily driver distribution? (lemm.ee)

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Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guix. I like Nix and Scheme so it just makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wanted to like Guix very much, but eventually found it extremely inflexible. You will miss a lot of packages that are not trivial to create in Scheme yourself. Also a lot of packages have issues that no one wants to fix, or it takes half a year (e.g. being able to use NetworkManager for an eduroam/university wifi connection).

It's also not possible to just compile a package yourself because the directory structure is totally different.

I don't think Guix will ever become more flexible, I've given up on it