alt Hacker NewsGuix SD will never catch on as long as they force non-systemd management. I don’t care to try Shepherd. Systemd is good enough and it has won.
> I had to use nonguix to get internet working on the machine, which had very immediate technical effects that bring me to
Stuff like this will
The main reasons I’m interested in guix:
- it uses a known-good language (lisp)
- IIRC it is more repeatable (the contents used in derivations play into the hash).
- It has a full source bootstrap
Maybe someone with a focus on improving UX needs to build one of these afresh.
I don't know if importing systemd would make any difference to the system declaration file that you write, where you'd still declare services in the Lispy way. Does it matter if it translates to systemd services under the hood or not?