Ok, you all convinced me to give Guix a third try (yes I already gave up twice). Today I installed guix on a seperate partition aside the Debian-11 install on the same HD. Everything went fine but for the bootloader. I thought maybe it's best to not install it and let os-prober on the Debian side discover the Guix system (which I mounted on /mnt). Unfortunately it seems not to recognize the Guix-Install (maybe because the kernel-image is hidden deep in the store?). Vice versa I could add the Debian partition to the Guix config but if something goes wrong ... ?
Any advice? I'd really like to switch to guix (particularly because I've programmed a lot in guile in the late 90s and like the idea to configure my system in scheme :-) Bests, Alex On Thu, Nov 11 2021, 15:47:52, André A. Gomes <andremegaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alexander Asteroth <alexander.aster...@h-brs.de> writes: > >> of course the optimum is probably a pure native Guix system. But if this >> is not possible, what system forms the best base for Guix. I've tried >> arch and debian 11 and noticed that the packages available in Guix under >> arch are way more recent (e.g icecat 91 vs 6x) and more in general. > > I don't see how the base system could influence Guix's package > availability. > > Things that might differ from one base system to the other are some > default configurations (environment variables, etc). For example, a > friend of mine tried to use Guix on top of Ubuntu and there was a big > mess concerning XDG_* environment variables and the X window system (I > don't remember the details). > > If you're curious about Guix, I strongly advice using the whole system. > The community, afaik, doesn't put too much effort in making sure that it > works flawlessly out-of-the-box for all systems, since there other > priorities. Regardless, the community would be happy to accommodate any > contribution in that direction.
