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nonguix
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Nix – A One Pager
Their software freedom policy seems to be similar to Debian. All free by default, allow separate nonfree addon. In the case of Guix you can find that here: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix .
- Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
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Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager
The GUIX community has a non-free package repo, you just add it as a GUIX channel and problem solved:
https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
- The many issues plaguing Nix
- Nonguix
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My Void experience, so you don't have to
Yes, being a GNU project Guix has a strict free software only policy. The biggest channel (repo) with proprietary stuff for Guix is called nonguix. It has the vanilla kernel, Nvidia drivers and a number of other proprietary packages including Steam, Chrome and the like. I don't know what the state of ZFS on Guix is though as I don't care for it myself, but I can see why its inclusion would be questioned with regards to licensing.
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Differences between nixos and guix?
Since Guix is a GNU project, it doesn't support proprietary software (Steam, Discord, Zoom...). Third-party repos are available for it.
- Cannot install firefox in guix
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I'm not fond of nix syntax, how difficult will it be to switch to guix
There's a git lab repo for non-free/libre software that you can add as a channel when installing. I used the following guide that shows you how to do this.
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Invalid Field Specifier
I'm trying to enable substitues for nonguix. I added the code snippet from the nonguix website to my system.scm file per the instructions. When I try to reconfigure I get the following error:
guix-nonfree
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GNU Guix 1.3.0 Released
Thanks for the manager link.
> There are several third party channels covering non-free software needs.
Can you link some of them? I've kept a list over the years for when I decided to try Guix again, but it's not up to date. And some like [1] aren't being maintained anymore.
While I support this strong stance on free software from a philosophical standpoint, it's practically unusable as my main distro because of my current hardware. I'd love to see a distro based on Guix that breaks this GNU principle and focuses on general ease of use.
[1]: https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree
What are some alternatives?
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
com.valvesoftware.Steam
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
guix-nonfree
flake - My computing life in Nix.
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
flake - A Nix flake for many AI projects
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
jibyconf - Configuration scripts for deploying my dev workspace using Ansible playbooks and Stow