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What do you find problematic about app installation on Linux? The poster you replied to was talking about mixing packages from different distros, not about installing apps in general. Installing packages on your distro is very easy, either via a simple command like `apt install ` or via a graphical appstore-like interface to the same thing. All major distro package managers are very mature and reliable. Distributing…
> What do you find problematic about app installation on Linux? The poster you replied to was talking about mixing packages from different distros, not about installing apps in general. That's the thing, I very frequently have to install applications that are not in the repo for any given distribution I'm using. Either this is because of the version I require, or the application is somewhat niche, or there's a specia…
> No thanks. I'd rather not have to learn an entirely new language just to do things like distribute and install applications.
Common misunderstanding, but you don't need to know Guile or the Nix language to use either of these systems.
"guix install foo", "guix pack -f docker bar", etc.
Guix also has package transformation options ("build with this patch", "build with these sources instead", "replace foo with bar in the package graph") that are exposed to the command line and also don't require you learn any Scheme.