On 4/1/25 05:35, pinoaffe wrote:
That's up to you, if that consideration is the most important to you,
I'd recommend you switch to one of the distros listed on
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
That's a disingenuous suggestion. You know fully well that the only
options beyond Guix are Trisquel and Parabola. I've switched to
Trisquel, but I'd much rather a Fedora-based OS, if it can't be Guix.
There have been several calls to reform GNU or to leave the GNU project
alltogether, I personally support the latter since I don't think there's
much potential for reform in the central GNU organisation - leaving GNU
would not be an abandonment of principles, but rather a renewed and
strengthened commitment to those same principles of technological
freedom and doing right by community members.
Doing right by community members means entirely shunning Stallman? If I
remember correctly, Stallman is a very progressive person. There is no
reason to fear him, unlike (say) Linus Torvalds or Eric S. Raymond.
Guix has several drawbacks that, while trivial, make it worse than
Fedora Silverblue:
* Guix asks for my LUKS password twice and has no Plymouth screen for
entering the LUKS password.
* Guix is slow at package management, even slower than DNF.
* GNU Shepherd is immature and hard to use.
* Guix uses more resources (disk space, processing power) than
conventional distros.
* Guix inherits legacy practices from Debian-based distros
* X11 should be Wayland
* ext4 should be btrfs or XFS
* Docker should be Podman
These are all personal preferences rather than "legacy practices" and
they're definitely not "inherited from Debian-based distros",
Wherever these practices came from, they're quite antiquated and
shouldn't be recommended by default in the installer and documentation.
furthermore, Guix supports wayland,
For the longest time, GNOME by default was on X11, even though most
distros put it on Wayland.
Guix supports not just ext4, but
also btrfs and xfs,
Yeah, if you use a manual installation...
and even though both docker and podman are packaged
in Guix I don't see much of a reason to use either of them when I have
guix.
In the real world, some services require containers, like Snikket or
Jellyfin.
you do you, threats by individual users (rightfully) don't hold any weight
OK, but there are many users like me. We should at least have a vote on
this issue, including users, not just the developers who are not just
progressive, but progressive fundamentalists, who want to shun anyone
who doesn't follow the party line to a tee. Disagreement is what makes
us human, and we need to accept it and cooperate despite our differences.
Stallman sows division - I'm sure he largely means well, and he has
contributed a lot to the libre software community but that does
not excuse his behavior in any way, shape, or form.
Ostracizing him is not the answer. He has already taken a back seat and
people are developing without him. It is cruel to ruin a dying man's
name. Ruining people's names and ostracizing people should never be the
answer. The door to reconciliation should always be open. Love mercy.
--
Caleb Herbert
https://calebh.top/
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