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What are your opinions of Guix? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 10 months ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

guix pull - system reconfigure - reboot process took about three to four hours each time,

That's exceptionally long. Could it be that you were building every tool from scratch, and weren't using any binary servers?

[–] Octorine@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure I was set up for substitutes, but this was a while ago.

I did end up replacing my router a few months after that, so it may have just been that my connection was very slow.

Also, every time I tried it and it didn't work, I had to do a full Pop Os install in order for myguix install media to start working again, which added a few minutes to the process.