Nix seemed more focused on marketing and cutting corners to make a working product faster
Yes, this is a big issue in corporate development. It seems like management is in a constant state of barreling headfirst into a “silver bullet that fixes everything” instead of doing things the hard way (which in the long term is almost always better.
expect to either package it yourself
I have not maintained any packages before but I am very interested in learning how, I shall look into this.
Shepherd for its init system
I vaguely remember this was the originally used in Hurd? if so that is cool.
This is very cool!
guix import
This seems quite useful thanks for that.
Setting up Emacs, a local SMTP server connected to your email for git, and a CLI password manager will probably be helpful.
I have been wanting to set up upasfs this may be the push I need to finally get around to doing that.
It appears Guix may be a good choice in the future but not quite yet, I will try installing it as a package manager and/or try it in a VM to start out with. Thanks for the info!
Yes you are quite right, unfortunately for me I rolled high in electrochemestry and require copious amounts of proprietary games and CUDA cores so GNU + Linux + Proton is where I will need to be for now.