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Trying out Guix for the first time! Waiting for packages to download.
I’m a long time Arch user. Any tips?!
I’ve heard there aren’t as many packages for Guix as other distros, but I was thinking Flatpak and distrobox will help bridge the gap for me.
The thing about Guix (and Nix) is that there doesnt need to be a package in the repos. You can either make your system automatically compile from source (which is how many AUR packages work) or use something like distrobox, bottles, flatpak to run extra software
YES! That’s my plan! I think I just figured out how to configure
flakpak
a little better.These are only part of the steps needed: https://flatpak.org/setup/GNU Guix
You also need to source
~/.guix-profile/etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh
in order to get the desktop icons to show up in the GNOME app launcher. (Usingguix home
for that!)Need to work on getting distrobox setup next. I was able to
guix install distrobox
, but it requires some extra configuration apparently.Btw, here’s the
guix home
configuration file I used to add the contents offlatpak.sh
into my~/.profile
, in order to update theXDG_DATA_HOME
env var.(use-modules (gnu home) (gnu home services shells) (guix gexp) (gnu services)) (home-environment (services (list (simple-service 'flatpak-service home-shell-profile-service-type (list (local-file (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.guix-profile/etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh") "flatpak.sh"))))))