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Your Experience with Linux, BSD etc
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One thing that really hurts my Guix experience is that maintainers are not consistent. As in, they'll update a expression, and disappear. And the issue with this is that there's a lot of missing information and context for the new users trying their hand in contribution. I just wish that NodeJS and Crystal were maintained.
Yeah it sucks that Node is on a 2 year old version. I ended up just using a Docker container for that stuff. Weird that Guix has some packages years out of date while others are always bleeding edge.
I've been trying to bump versions, but the damned tests. It takes almost two days to compile on my potato PC, and then finally when it comes to checking tests, it fails. I tried this last month, for almost three weeks, then gave up.