On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:19:59PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Ultimately, I gave up. In my opinion, Guix has never achieved usability > as a desktop system on non-Intel systems. Therefore, the Guix community > is unable to attract many developers who want a distro that supports > non-Intel systems well. Our community has thus become dominated by > Intel users, and there's unsufficient political will to adopt policies > that would enable us to provide a usable system for non-Intel users. > > What do you think?
Thanks, as always, for your well-reasoned message. Your story of your experience here, and what it means for Guix, computing security, and free software in general, is really valuable. I still think it's really unfortunate for the rest of us that you gave up, but I don't see how it could have gone differently. I agree with you that Guix moves too fast to support non-Intel architectures in its current state. My hope is that, within the next two years, there will be workstation aarch64 machines more widely available at comparable prices to Intel/AMD, and this will translate into more developer support for aarch64 in the years after that. Time will tell.
