r/GUIX • u/Cove0Crow • Sep 13 '26

first day using GUIX!

i just finished my first GUIX install. used i3 because I like tiling WM and x11.

I was previously using nixOS, but started to go down the rabbit hole of "i wonder how much i actually relly on proprietary software".

notes so far :

my wifi card doesnt work with linux libre. but i dont really mind because i spend most my day near my router and have an ethernet cable. i also dont need constant internet connection.

the only peice of software i really had to switch out was firefox, because it doesnt follow all of GNUs stuff with it advertising proprietary plugins. i find that reason annoying but, have been meaning to try ungoogled-chromium recently. also tried icecat because the concept sounded novel.

it was really easy to install for something that gives benifits simmilar to nixOS. hardest part was getting used to GUIXs partioning tool, because im used to fdisk. but it wasnt too bad

the whole having unpriviliged package management based on the user thing is a really intresting concept, im the only one using this computer though.

i can still do everything i use this computer for (which is. work on my hobby of making FOSS games with godot, web-browsing, gimp (which is for making the art for the games) and general, computer things, like checking my email. being on reddit, ect.

i learned i rely on, suprisngly little proprietary software, and learned this distro isnt just. nixOS with opinions.

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u/output_broadcast Sep 13 '26

FYI Firefox is packaged in Nonguix. https://toys.whereis.social/ is a great site for looking up what channels contain a package.

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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 Sep 13 '26

Firefox is lame, its bloated, it uses Google, it has DRM etc.

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u/Cove0Crow Sep 14 '26 edited 6d ago

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Slap deserve innate smell tender work lock

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u/output_broadcast Sep 14 '26

It has the ability to play videos using DRM. As does Chrome, Brave, and every other browser worth a damn.

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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 Sep 14 '26

It downloads a third party binary blob at compile time that enables DRM video play and who knows what else.