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I tried it once a long time ago. Does anyone here currently use it? What do you like about it? What do you hate?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I tried it like a year ago maybe and it was a very interesting concept, but I couldn't find what it really brings to the table over Guix or Nix. I've used Guix quite a lot since then and found that the separation of packages was afaict very similar, with the added bonus of having a completely reproducible system. Maybe Gobo brings something that Guix/Nix does not, but in my time of testing it I couldn't find anything.

[–] julia 1 points 1 year ago

When i tried Gobo linux I really liked the thought of putting packages in one directory. But that's about it. It had small amount of packages (recepes) for my taste. Overall for my taste it was too much for me to manage. Plus it didn't have a release in a while. It was marked dormant on distrowatch.org