Below is my response to zimoun email. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:35, zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sherab, > > First, you only sent the email to me. Was it your intention? If yes, > your words should interest the list too. If no, please re-send your > words to the list or can I use publicly them? > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 23:14, <wisdomli...@protonmail.com> wrote: > >> For what it’s worth, I presume I’m the person you are probably thinking >> about. >> I am not a developer or any thing like that at all - but I do install my own >> Linux desktop distribution I can play a little with terminal and enjoy >> tweaking and finding out things about Linux. I can solve rudimentary issues >> by looking at the various forums. >> I tried Guix a while back and did not get anywhere with it. The experience >> was abysmal- installation was infinitely slow and finally did not happen. > > Sad! :-( > Now, with the binary shell installer, it should be easy. Please report > on help-guix@gnu.org any of the issue you encounter. > > See the doc here [1] especially the note at the top, i.e., download > [2] and run "bash guix-install.sh". > > [1] > http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation > [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh > >> As Simon said what needs to be clear is what is the benefits I as a user >> will receive from using guix. What makes it stand out then the other RedHat >> Debian based distributions?? > > To help us to figure out or convince you that Guix is awesome, could > you quickly describe why you were interested in Guix? > How did you learn the existence of Guix? > And why did you want to install it? > > All the best, > simon
