On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:17:56PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > That said, on the general interest: guix is already slooow on a fairly modern > X200. If that ran on an armv7, it would probably be much slower. Not fun. > But might be worth a try. Did someone try the non-GuixSD armv7 thing? Is the > speed acceptable?
I am running it over Debian on my Novena, where it is quite usable - this is the machine from which I am writing this e-mail! I do not know whether it is actually slower than on the X200. The four cores help; in the background I am building Qt, and the machine is still usable. In any case, there is no reason that Guix(SD) should be slower than any other GNU/Linux distribution. I also tried KDE, which I found too slow; under Xfce, I am quite happy. (Of course, I am using substitutes.) Andreas
