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Re: It wasn't for nothing

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Post by slgeorge »

inciampati wrote: post #62

Guix has been utterly transformative for my scientific work. It lets me maintain a lab notebook (my shell history) with perfect description of what software versions commands I ran used. I don't upstream much. It's just packages I maintain in my own channel that support this. On a multi user HPC server environment, it's simply ideal. Every user can have their own system setup. Love it.

I've been using Guix on top of Ubuntu so that I can have the latest versions of some applications I care about, while keeping the core Ubuntu which works well with my hardare.

Similar to your comment the ability to see exactly what is installed, with repeatability is fantastic. For my personal use-case the ability to install an application in parallel to Ubuntu's is really useful.

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Post by sierkov »

3836293648 wrote: post #55
sierkov wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can use Nix at work, at home, with family, with vendors, with binary blobs, on macOS. I'm using Guix for work, at home, my wife has Guix on her gaming laptop with nvidia card, playing games on steam. Nobody has any problems with enabling rpmfusion repo on Fedora, using aur on Arch, adding backports repo for kde or whatever on ubuntu. But as soon as it's nonguix channel it's suddenly a problem. Huh. It's literally…

If you're just turning to flatpak, why are you even using guix in the first place?

Flatpak is not an OS. Weird question.

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Post by tux »

Thank you to Marius Bakke for this post. I can relate, this is exactly why I've been doing my own project since 2016 even when not many know about it or use it or even supported it. I've learned so much from doing this project from scratch and made some very good friends since day one.

And @behnamoh "Does it bother you if people don't discover your work and don't use it?" If I may... I personally don't care if people use my project(s), as long as I do =) It's what makes you personally happy that matters ^_^ I'm actually working actively on v2.0 of the project without much support at all, just because I use it daily myself =)

Edit: I think that the best project(s) you can do in life is the ones you use yourself the most. When you are both creator and user of your project(s) you have unique perspective. Thanks to all for reading my comment.

Re: It wasn't for nothing

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Post by dannyobrien »

david_allison wrote: post #59
behnamoh wrote: post #4

I liked the article, I wish there were more of these. I've always wondered "who" are the developers who contribute to the open-source projects that I use without much hassle? Why do they do it? How does their life look like? And most importantly, are they OK?

Let's go! I'm currently living rent-free in an unoccupied student room in Edinburgh (it's out of term here, and I'm living with friends). I'm spending most of this month enjoying the Edinburgh Fringe Festival[0] (I saw 7 shows yesterday). The remainder of my time goes on Open Source/contracting work. Due to the Fringe, this month is unusual and I'm not satisfied with my open source activity: it's mostly code reviews,…

Do you have a link to your sponsorship/donation pages?

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Post by zelphirkalt »

I can confirm, that some of the free software projects and mailing lists and IRC channels are really good learning environments. Since I have started being sometimes active on the Guile and a bit rarer the Guix mailing list, I have learned a ton of stuff. People are usually helpful and it helps discovering gaps in ones knowledge or things one got wrong. Also good for learning about many cool tools.

Re: It wasn't for nothing

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Post by bspammer »

gtsop wrote: post #49
colordrops wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think both of you are wrong. There is room for both idealism and pragmatism in this world. We don't have to choose a single path. In fact the tension between the two paths helps keep both of them dynamic and alive.

I think your comment should be more strict: There isn't just room for both, it is a given that both ideals and pragmatism must exist and go hand in hand. Ideals are the compass, shows you the final destination, where you are going. Pragmatism is the next step towards ideals. It prevents you from being paralized when the ideals are very far away. Without ideals it would be as if you don't have a GPS on your car and ro…

This is a great comment, and (politics warning) also feels very similar to my opinion on the current leftist/liberal infighting in the Democratic Party.

I think in almost all cases the leftists are right, but too often they have have no way to realise their ideals.

The liberal platform is the only left-wing platform that can currently feasibly win an election in America. Maybe that will one day change, but I’ve seen too many on the left throw the baby out with the bathwater because they want their ideal society right now, and nothing else will suffice.

At the same time, I’m grateful they continue to show us which way we should work towards.

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