[altgans]

I am a NixOS user, but am interested in Guix. Based on a cursory look I have some questions:

- How big is Guix on GNU? Does it throw wrenches in your way if you do anything "unfree"? How easy is it to install the nvidia-drivers? - How is the package ecosystem? 20.000 official packages seems a little low? Are there community packages? How easy it is to create your own packages? Why is the Neovim package only at version 4.4 [1]? Isn't version 5 officially released? - How good is the documentation? - Is there a project roadmap? Are there any issues preventing adoption?

[1]: https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/neovim-0.4.4/

[assbuttbuttass]

As someone who's used Guix:

They only package linux-libre, so if your device needs proprietary wifi, you're out of luck. Also they package icecat instead of firefox which is kind of cool.

I tried to package slash'em a few years ago, and found it very difficult. The documentation is gigantic and it's hard to find what you're looking for. I found folks on IRC very helpful.

[ryukafalz]

>They only package linux-libre, so if your device needs proprietary wifi, you're out of luck.

I wouldn't say you're out of luck in that case. If you need upstream Linux, nonguix has it: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

[civodul]

As with Debian, wifi devices are about the only thing you might have "troubles" with when opting for Linux-libre:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerat...

[yewenjie]

Yes, the low number of readily available packages is the primary reason I switched from Guix to Nix.

[rekado]

The default channel of Guix has more than 21,000 packages. Is that what counts as a "low number" these days?

[zeec123]

And properitary drivers.