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Everyday Use of GNU Guix
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I heard the opposite, that guille is easier to learn than NixOS language.
Guile and Guix is way better documented than Nix. The language have more features, so you don't have to use a hack to load packages, can actually know what is accepted in a function instead of blindly copying what others do, and it comes with a formatter.
I find it more intuitive, if that makes sense.
I think the language is harder but more powerful than Nix's.
Imo a better manual and examples would help a lot.
I'd say one of the biggest issues is the one with proprietary drivers - you can't really find examples and guides on how to get drivers working because it's kept hush-hush, and to install them yourself requires knowledge on how to set things up, knowledge which beginner users don't have ofc.
I'm a big fan of Guix and Guile but atm I couldn't switch over due to this.
Can't you just use the standard Linux kernel? You can just tell GUIX to use the standardized kernel in its config file
You can swap it with the standard one. It's on another non-official channel called nonguix.
There is a pre built distribution, you need to configure binary cache to get it. Refer to the "Substitute for nonguix" section: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix