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0 pointstrelane6mo ago0 comments

If you install guix as a user, it augments or overrides the software available on your base system.

It helps a lot on Chromebooks, where it's not straightforward to get a recent release.

It also helps to get up-to-date packages if you're a regular user and your admin doesn't have them for some reason (maybe RHEL or Ubuntu LTS.)

Or even just if your admin doesn't have the packages installed.

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I feel like that brew, or better yet, nix are great options for userspace applications in Linux and macOS

trelaneOP6mo ago

Sure, there are other options for this. But this is certainly a use case for guix, which is what the poster was asking about.

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