tomenzgg comments on NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

At least as long as you don't really need WiFi of course...

Hey, now – the NonGuix repo. exists!

For those unfamiliar, it contains software with proprietary elements that otherwise can't make it into the Guix software repository, à la non-free for Debian.

You can get the normal Linux kernel and all the hardware compatibility you'd typically expect easily through NonGuix.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

For some reason, stuff like libre wolf isn't in the guix repo. Not even Firefox. It's very confusing.

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[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

Firefox's use of Encrypted Media Extensions violates the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines as it allows for playing of DRM-protected content which can steer people to non-free software (there may be additional other reasons but that's one I definitely know of).

But it's perfectly available in NonGuix; I use Firefox regularly on Guix.

As for Librewolf, I'm not sure that's accurate? I see it available in the default Guix repo.s, latest version: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/librewolf/.

It was added about 2 years ago. Admittedly, Guix is a smaller distro so some packages aren't packaged immediately just as a consequence of a lack of human resources; but it also continues to improve over time, quite nicely.

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