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   Luj (luj@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:06 JST Luj

   I have to say that with my newfound emacs passion, trying to run a system on Guix is very appealing

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:11:58 JST Janneke

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     • Yvan Sraka

     @luj @yvan why would o e need nix to be installed (a nice feature to have) for using direnv?
     For Emacs rabbit hole aspirants, emacs-envrc.el together with direnv and Guix shell...yum!

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     Luj (luj@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:11:59 JST Luj

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     • Yvan Sraka

     @yvan Do you also have Nix installed on your GuixSD system ? Like for example to continue using direnv and such ?

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     Yvan Sraka (yvan@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:03 JST Yvan Sraka

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     @luj I mean (sorry for telling you the whole story when you didn’t even ask for it… am I a reply guy?) I installed it in the first place because I was curious about the developer experience, and I found it really interesting just to check out the different CLI, naming choices, and system configuration API. I believe every Nix contributor should give it a try, just because it’s good to see how things could be done differently!

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     Yvan Sraka (yvan@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:04 JST Yvan Sraka

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     @luj I use #Guix on my X230, and it’s a good daily driver (though I found it a bit slower than #Nix). But I wouldn’t use it on a server, I’m way too used to systemd, haha. Also, there are too many useful NixOS options in nixpkgs that I wouldn’t have the courage to rewrite. I’ve been using it for more than six months now, and I still haven’t found the motivation to contribute a single time to the Guix sources repository…

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     Luj (luj@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:05 JST Luj

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     On the other hand if I fall in this rabbit hole will I ever be able to get out of it :p

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:23:40 JST Janneke

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     • Yvan Sraka

     @luj @yvan Ahh, of koorze.

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     Luj (luj@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:23:42 JST Luj

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     • Yvan Sraka

     @janneke @yvan :pppp Yeah sure :D But I'd be happy to have all the project I work on that use Nix shells still working :p