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  • Whenever somebody recommends NixOS, I just want to spam the comments with Guix. I prefer configs I can understand, and I think lisp makes that easier. Other than syntax, the only thing I see is people complaining about the free-oftware-only. But the recently hyped distrobox solves that (together with the nonguix repo). Yet nobody recommends guix in all these “immutable” distro threads.

    In my opinion Guix is the best mix of:

    • Arch (rolling release),

    • NixOS (“immutable”, atomic updates , rollback, reproducible, declarative configs)

    • Gentoo (source code based, write your own package definitions for any source code you find),

    with some lispy syntax.


  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. A scientist is on a mission to save the world. The science stuff is accurate and easy to understand in my opinion (but I’m a physicist, lol).

    The author also wrote the Martian, that was adapted as a movie, you probably know it.

    My colleague recommends it to everyone, and she reads a lot. I read a little and also liked it. Not only because of the science, but also because of the story.