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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36606182
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As soon as you veer off the beaten path, things can get really tricky.
For med tech and robotics development, I’m still using Debian via docker because the surrounding ecosystems for those software communities are so tightly integrated with the Debian.
@chasehainey @ruffsl Try ‘claude code’ to jiggle config. (Claude works directly on your files at the command line under your supervision. Fabulous, fast, fun, fixing flakes.)
A strong warning against distrohopping.
It’s a slippery slope, to be sure.
I’m also against quick and frequent distro-hopping.
People say that’s the way how to learn; i say that’s the way not to learn deep knowledge. It’s like waking up 7 times in the night, instead getting the much needed deep sleep. Yeah, I could not come up with a better analogy, it’s still early in the day (but I got my sleep BTW). Whatever…
that’s a weird way to spell EndeavourOS.
Well
If you have a lot of free time to dedicate to writing coonfigs
Nah. GNU Guix System. Or Debian + Guix.
Nix has more packages but Guix is much more well documented and coherent (anecdotal and subjective). Also nice with scheme instead of yet another DSL.
I haven’t dug into Guix yet, so is the config more of a markup and less of Turing complete language? That sounds like it’d be easier to grock or optimize an LSP for.
I have heard that Guix takes a stronger stance with respect to unfree software. I don’t think any of the official nix Hydra infrastructures build for unfree packages, but they are packaged and indexed into nixpkgs. Has Guix been difficult at all in that regard, i.e. using proprietary drivers or closed libraries for work or personal hardware?
You probably missed it there, Guix’s syntax is the programming language Scheme. It’s most definitely Turing-complete.
It’s possible that there’s a more mature LSP server for Scheme, since it is a programming language used for other things, too…
Whoops, I misread scheme as schema. That’s really powerful. One thing I wish I could reliably do with a Nix LSP is navigate to a definition of a symbol.
@khleedril @Ephera @ruffsl I use several nonfree packages, and binary packages (both free and nonfree). None of this can be added to the main Guix repo, but as GNU is about freedom, nothing stops me from packaging these as I see fit and distribute them freely to others to use.
So if you only use the main channel, you won’t find nonfree software, but look at https://toys.whereis.social/
Yeah, I meant Scheme as you’ve already figured out.
I would say that nonguix makes nonfree stuff trivial: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
However, I do advocate that Guix introduce an official “curated” nonfree repository (like Debian). I believe that would make more good for user freedom and reproducibility. Almost no mainstream hardware works well with the libre kernel.
Closest one is probably opensuse tumbleweed, but still not perfect by any means
I believe Guix System (or all Nix/Guix derivates) is the closest one. Otherwise I would say Yocto (not really a distro), Gentoo and all the container based distos (like openSUSE Micro).
