Please don't leave GNU

[Caleb Herbert]

Hi Guix,

I use Guix primarily because of its commitment to user freedom and its 
united front with the GNU Project.

If Guix were just another distro, I'd much rather use Fedora Silverblue 
than Guix. I use Guix, despite its faults, because it is GNU.

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

Despite all these drawbacks, I stick with Guix, because it is GNU. 
Don't fail me here, or I'll defect to Fedora and stop promoting Guix.

Thank you.

P.S. We need unity, not division. Cancelling Stallman will just strike 
fear into otherwise progressive, left-leaning people, wondering if they 
are next.  Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good.

--
Caleb Herbert
https://calebh.top/

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