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Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project

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How is Shepherd? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by wer2@lemm.ee to c/guix@lemmy.ml

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I am thinking about moving to Guix, and was wondering what you all think of Shepherd?

What are things you like? What are its shortcomings? Any cool or weird things you wish you knew before using it?

For context, I am currently using Runnit.

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[–] fishinthecalculator@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It is quite basic still and historically had some problems with reboots, but lately it has gained a lot of attention and bug fixes. I have no experience of runnit, compared to systemd is leaner but in my experience there's no big feature lacking

[–] Doom4535@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I miss 'systemctl poweroff' (haven't learned the new herd equivalent); also, 'herd --help' doesn't really give any useful information and only lists a few things you can do... Have to really dig into the documentation (someday). Also, the 'shutdown' syntax has changed... Otherwise, most stuff has gone well

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[–] Doom4535@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What I mean with shutdown, is the flags have changed (So, I can't do 'shutdown -hP' or 'shutdown -hP now')

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[–] Doom4535@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Dang, I had no idea and never thought to inspect it; thank you for pointing that out, now maybe I can finally figure out how to nicely shutdown from the terminal