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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:26:37 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Dear #guix people: I recently saw someone on here post a tip about how to run things in Guix containers and also have audio, does anyone have a reference for that?

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:37:34 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Daniel Lakeland

     @tauon @dlakelan I run both Nix and Guix and Guix is a way better experience IME

     You can also easily install Nix packages on a Guix computer so there's no real problem having both

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     lily ?️‍⚧️ (tauon@possum.city)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:37:37 JST lily ?️‍⚧️

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     • Daniel Lakeland

     @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org @cwebber@social.coop i use nix too, that would be so useful if i'm trying to run certain programs
     maybe i should just start using guix

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     Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:37:38 JST Daniel Lakeland

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     @tauon
     https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Guix-System-Containers.html

     Does sound cool. I so want to use guix but nix just has the packages and users.
     @cwebber

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     lily ?️‍⚧️ (tauon@possum.city)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:37:39 JST lily ?️‍⚧️

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     @cwebber@social.coop what are guix containers that sounds really cool

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 02:16:50 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Daniel Lakeland

     @dlakelan @tauon Yeah you can just add the "Nix service" from https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Services.html to your Guix system config and whammo, you've got all of Nix's packages in Guix!

     So really, if "I'd like to use Guix but Nix has more packages" is your concern, there you go, problem solved 💜

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     Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 02:16:51 JST Daniel Lakeland

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     @cwebber
     Wait, mind blown... 🤯

     Do you have a link to how thats supposed to work? I'm assuming you do a GUIX install and then add nix as an additional package mgr? I'm new to all of this so some hand holding reference would be awesome.
     @tauon

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     Luis Felipe (luis_felipe@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 04:12:43 JST Luis Felipe

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     @cwebber maybe this?

     https://mastodon.online/@luis_felipe/113829448757559030

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 04:13:05 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Luis Felipe

     @luis_felipe yeah this was it! I'll give it a try, ty!