Post #3681954

tl;dr Staying on Debian Stable So it's been an interesting summer of experiment. I've been on #Debian Stable for ages and loved it from the beginning. I've dabbled for the first time this summer in #Fedora (easiest and safest #AsahiLinux install on a discarded Macbook). And I finally got time (and lots of help! thanks!) to try out #Guix #GuixSystem as a distro. Impressed with Fedora, rock solid. As a GNOME user it would take awhile to notice it wasn't Debian. I bet people alias apt=dnf. But it made me realize: the update pace on Fedora vexed me. Debian "Stable" doesn't mean Debian doesn't crash. Debian Stable means Debian doesn't CHANGE. And when I finally got my caveman skull (partially, crudely) around the Guix/Nix paradigm, I realized it was just Arch with extra steps. I yearn for the mathematical formality of a declarative Lispy config. It may not have been worth the extra complexity and learning curve, but it definitely was not worth leaving the Stable lifestyle. I do love to tinker, but I love to have a simple familiar boring system. I guess more. What drew me to Guix in the first place was the promise of reproducible portability: it is very important that the Stack of Laptops all behave the same. But I have in fact enjoyed this very thing for years, with a bash script. If you've read this far, could you just validate me here? Tell me you approve of my imperative setup? 😆