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submitted 10 months ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

Wait how did you find out it was written in Scheme after you installed it? Sounds like someone didn’t do their research.

Yes, I read all specs before installing anything I ever use. Before using the internet I researched the entire IP stack, studied computer science, and am right now using smokes signals captured by a camera at exactly 1 FPS to encode my bits so that you can read them.

🙄

One thing that Guix excels at.

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[-] jaeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, I read all specs before installing anything I ever use.

It's literally in the front page of the project. https://guix.gnu.org/

Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.

No idea how you survive Nix's scattered documentation.

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lmao.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.

"provides Guile Scheme APIs". Yeah, I provide this software in Slint. This software provides Linux APIs. This software provides HTTP APIs. kek

What a helpful description.

No idea how you survive Nix’s scattered documentation.

Nix's documentation doesn't try to invent a new way to say "this was written in $language" and has less members like you around. Much easier to deal with.

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