Hi Gottfried, On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 7:23 AM Gottfried <gottfr...@posteo.de> wrote: > > It seems to me, after using Guix for 1 year, that packages for > developers like Emacs are very well maintained.
You are right. For better or for worse, Guix is a speciality distribution. Some of us have higher hopes. Personally, I believe Guix has the potential to be the next Debian. > But others like the different desktops have constantly problems and you > can not use everything on those desktops. only the basics are working. > But they don’t work well with all the additional add-ons. Many Guix folks come from other Linux or BSD distributions. We have years of experience fixing our systems. We have high thresholds for technical pain. We are zealots. A user's convenience is usually not a huge factor for us. [1] It puts us at odds with nice folks like yourself. > In other distros like manjaro, endeavour I remember the desktops and > they are working well with all the add-ons, but in Guix it is different. There are many distributions out there. You should pick the one that is best for you. > Probably there is not enough time and interest for the developers of > Guix to deal with the desktops. They deal more with the packages for > scientific use and not so much with those packages for the daily normal > users. If you are staying with Guix (which I would wholeheartedly encourage) you should try to find (or perhaps organize) a group with interests similar to yourself. You have to find people with the same goals so you can learn and advocate together. Already the Talmud stated right in its introduction: "Provide for yourself a teacher and get yourself a friend." (Pirkei Avot 1:6) [2] To you I hope to be a bit of both, but your interest in music and other arts surpasses my own. Anyone with interest in MIDI and editing music may please speak up! Kind regards Felix [1] https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc [2] https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/pirkei-avot-ethics-of-the-fathers-3/
