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Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project

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How is Shepherd? (lemm.ee)
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I am thinking about moving to Guix, and was wondering what you all think of Shepherd?

What are things you like? What are its shortcomings? Any cool or weird things you wish you knew before using it?

For context, I am currently using Runnit.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It is quite basic still and historically had some problems with reboots, but lately it has gained a lot of attention and bug fixes. I have no experience of runnit, compared to systemd is leaner but in my experience there's no big feature lacking