What's the best OS to get shit done?

Install & forget

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I mean, bugs and lack of polish aren't issues which are necessarily indicative of the long-term state of a software project. Presumably GuixSD will support btrfs subvolumes eventually. With alpha software, when you're not a proactive contributor to the project, it's a binary of whether or not the existing functionality suits your present needs, and, if it doesn't, beggars can't be choosers.

Compared to other projects, Guix has a lot of users. Maybe not a big surplus like a software project pandering to lay-users in the form of desktop applications (that's where all the money is), but it will always have a guaranteed userbase, because Guix is pretty much the only contemporary project spearheading the GNU project. And the FSF is just grateful they're not producing vaporware for a change.

I never looked into cross-compiling on Guix. They're might be a solution for that and I never even realized.

How come you're still using an i386 machine? Is it for security reasons or you just don't see the point of throwing away a perfectly usable machine?

"Security", lol. The latter. I don't have any i686 Thinkpads, and I'm trying my best not to be a Thinkpad hoarder. It sucks to be wasteful, especially since you should really need less the more you know what you want. I don't know, I just feel gross and shameful pondering throwing out my old hardware just because it doesn't suit modern expectations for software. That's like throwing a paraplegic in a gas chamber even though they're a very good mathematician. A regular user might need a DE like Gnome to feel comfortable getting everything they need done, but that obviously takes far more resources than just plain Emacs, which is what I mostly use. I'm tempted to buy the Pinebook Pro. I don't want to buy a new i686 computer, since ARM is clearly on the way in. I need something that only needs a free wireless driver, but trackpads literally gross me out. My disgust is only seconded by chiclet keyboards. It infuriates me that people actually use trackpads, because they're so stupid. I always disable them in BIOS. In my conservancy, I am paradoxically picky.

I have this Power Macintosh G4 sitting right in front of me right now, collecting dust, unusable because I need to buy a new PATA HDD, but I can't rationalize spending money on something when I know I'll literally never ever use the computer beyond 30 minutes of me playing with the PowerPC architecture and then getting bored, and yet I can't give it away.