Which of these worlds sounds best for FOSS:
a) a world where all the projects have clear steps to compiling, participating
b) a world where you trust the developers to compile and put things together from black boxes, don't touch them, the devs know what's best for you
fuck flathub/flatpak/docker as "the way to run FOSS software", go guix and nix and debian
down with "father knows best" architecture
@cwebber Just got whiplash imagining a world where I have to compile electron and chromium from source to install a shitty desktop app 🤣
@mauve yes, which is also why I don't use certain kinds of tech which have become "accustomed" to not having reproducible build pipelines
@mauve If it can't be packaged in Guix and people have tried, that's a bad smell ;)
@cwebber I feel like there's a lot of downsides to end users by having this restriction which would reduce adoption outside of tech people that care about this stuff very strongly.
In my experience the average person want's to do as little as possible to get something running. It's why app stores and websites are so popular IMO.
@cwebber Does guix make it easy to distribute to Mac/Windows in addition to different flavors of Linux by any chance?
@mauve @cwebber #Guix requires a #POSIX environment and #GNU tools.
So in #Windows it will work mainly through #WSL. On Mac there's probably some other thing for similar effect.
At least if you want to run Guix directly.
But as @cwebber mentions, you can use guix pack in which case there are a bunch of other formats including plain Docker images you can use for deployment of arbitrary programs and bundles.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html
@mauve "guix pack"