Hi Gottfried,
On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 7:23 AM Gottfried <gottfried@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/