Hi, responding to just few points.
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> writes: >> Guix has several drawbacks that, while trivial, make it worse than >> Fedora Silverblue: >> >> * Guix asks for my LUKS password twice > > Not sure of the current situation, but this was because GNU GRUB lacked > support for passing on the unlocked LUKS device with a secure key > derivation function or some such thing. The fix should be made > upstream. Assuming the cause here is encrypted /boot, than the need to enter password twice is no more (for over a year). See documentation for extra-initrd field of operating-system. >> * GNU Shepherd is immature and hard to use. >> * Guix uses more resources (disk space, processing power) than >> conventional distros. > > Except for guix pull and similar commands, is that really true? The > installed software is like in other package managers. I think this is in general true, at least for the disk space. Or, to be more precise, it is an impression I share with the original author. Compare: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix size deluge [..] total: 1954.5 MiB --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I decided to use Archlinux for comparison (Alpine seemed unfair ^_^). I am not sure how to do `guix size' with pacman, so I just started a container, installed the deluge package and did `du -sh /'. So the real number will be lower (since this one includes a package cache, extra packages and other random garbage): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- # du -sh / [..] 909M / --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So, even with the random garbage, Archlinux's package is less then half of what Guix needs. Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
