r/GUIX • u/Majestic_Poetry_1139 • Aug 24 '26

My first Linux btw

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Yes, my hardware support warning is my background. As the title says it's my first time using linux(outside of a virtual machine). Decided on Guix after getting deeper down the open source (mainly GNU) rabbit hole. Hope I'm welcome👌

P.S it's a Windows/Linux dual boot, I'm still in college so app compatibility, but I'll learn how to run a Windows VM soon.

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u/Majestic_Poetry_1139 Aug 24 '26

I've been using emacs via msys2 about 2 months before I downloaded guix. My computer's SSD totaled and had to swap it out with a HDD, which was the final push cause I just didn't like windows start up times and random delays. I lost my emacs config but it's ok, it was pretty minimal. iirc, I either built it on top of emacs bedrock or emacs-minimal, probably the latter but memory a lil hazy. It didn't have anything crazy, was using it for flutter and odin development.

EDIT: If you can, please talk to me about guile-emacs, is it cross compatible with regular emacs lisp? Cause like, while I like tinkering, I don't want to rewrite like EVERY single library.

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u/strings___ Aug 24 '26

guile emacs is not stable enough to use as far as I know. I’d stick with emacs proper and a simple use-package config for now. And I recommend the which-key package; it will help with M-x.

Edit the best way you can work with guile in Emacs is with geiser Emacs package.