On 2026-02-24 13:35, Eduardo Mercovich wrote: > Dear fellow guixers. > > First of all, congratulations with much gratitude for all the work poured on > this new release. It shows and it shines. :)
Guix is gorgeous! > > I installed guix 1.5 on an 8 year old Dell Latitude starting with a small USB > drive and booting from it, using Spanish as language and everything went very > well. This machine has -sadly- some hardware that includes proprietary blobs, > but this is the machine I have now and those issues are off-list. I didn't bother with 'nonguix' or w/e for this install to a Lenovo desktop box. I'm certain something in it "needs" non-free firmware, but I have not observed anything missing in its operation. > > > 5. Contrasting with the previous, this last point is really a very small one. > The desktop environments chosen to be installed were Mate (just a simple one > to start if in trouble), i3 (the one I use) and exwm (with the hope to try > it). Mate didn't include by default any web browser. I'd like to argue that > since it is such a common and fundamental tool for most people these days (we > can debate if this is good and/or desirable), if it is within our reach by > default we should provide one. Anyone would do, no matter how simple. > In my opinion, The GNU System should, at minimum, provide emacs out-of-the-box. Emacs can browse the web, and its lack of javascript support suggests that it is probably safe enough to use on the web even if its version is a little stale... which it would not be, because guix. It is also a tool many GNUsers rely upon, and arguably the "best" tool available in GNU for editing Guile code. Guix makes you do that a lot... I don't like to advocate for emacs, because I kind of hate it. I use it increasingly, because it does everything (albeit poorly) and it isn't a Mozilla project like the other do-everything tool I hate. I will admit that emacs sometimes improves in ways that seem impossible with its 50+ years of tech debt, and that it does more with less than Firefox* does, at lower cost. * dont use firefox ugh. librewolf is less bad & supports sync; icecat is probably better? but does not support sync
