I haven’t tried to be honest, since it defeats the entire purpose of fucking around with Guix. I made a few posts on this, but I just fuck around with VMs when I haven’t done a “technical” activity to avoid feeling like a useless jackass, and one of the distros I wanted to learn about is Guix.

If I want to run guix install lxqt I can. But why would I want to use Guix to have a user with a certain desktop environment? I want to be able to set up machines at the drop of a hat that are all the same all the time, and I want the machine to be all the same, not the user.

If it does reconfigure successfully, it just gives a blank screen, or takes me to the terminal login prompt instead of a GUI login prompt.

I tried other things and it fails after hours of downloading packages and building. Does it seem right to you? What do you think I might be missing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky#Translations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_localisation

How would you translate Jabberwocky, which is made up entirely of non-existent words? When you translate “Calle Sangre” do you translate it as blood street or “Sangre street”? How about making a chinese adaptation of sherlock holmes? Do you translate the “baker” in “baker street” if you would translate calle sangre as blood street?

There are many decisions that have to be made when adapting a work for a different language, apparently pokemon made those tradeoffs.

PSA : Here are the official test or example domains you can use:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2606/

four domain names are reserved as listed and described below.

• .test
• .example
• .invalid
• .localhost

Reserved Top Level DNS Names

• example.com
• example.net
• example.org

Nope. They are configured on Debian and run on arch btw

That’s the fine details of personal situation and preference. I think we have a disagreement on perspective, and I’m glad you pointed out that specific detail, so that others reading our discussion can make a well informed decision.

I still disagree, but not because of a technical level, from my perspective, it’s still roughly the same, we just see “most recent hardware” as being applicable to different people.

And I hope you can feel that you can agree with the idea that it’s a social disagreement and not a technical one.

can you teach me how to make a config file that only has lxqt? I tried the thing below replacing XFCE with LXQT and failed loads, I’m tired of wasting gigs and hours trying to make it work when I’m sleepy.

;; This is an operating system configuration generated
;; by the graphical installer.
;;
;; Once installation is complete, you can learn and modify
;; this file to tweak the system configuration, and pass it
;; to the 'guix system reconfigure' command to effect your
;; changes.


;; Indicate which modules to import to access the variables
;; used in this configuration.
(use-modules (gnu))
(use-service-modules cups desktop networking ssh xorg wm)

(operating-system
  (locale "en_GB.utf8")
  (timezone "America/place")
  (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "gb"))
  (host-name "pc")

  ;; The list of user accounts ('root' is implicit).
  (users (cons* (user-account
                  (name "name")
                  (comment "name")
                  (group "users")
                  (home-directory "/home/name")
                  (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video")))
                %base-user-accounts))

  ;; Packages installed system-wide.  Users can also install packages
  ;; under their own account: use 'guix search KEYWORD' to search
  ;; for packages and 'guix install PACKAGE' to install a package.
  (packages (append (list
                          (specification->package "xterm")) %base-packages))

  ;; Below is the list of system services.  To search for available
  ;; services, run 'guix system search KEYWORD' in a terminal.
  (services
   (append (list (service xfce-desktop-service-type) ;; I replaced this with  lxqt-desktop-service-type and it didn't "start" the DE properly when I logged in, I just got a blank screen, or worse, it failed to install properly with different "rest of the file"

                 ;; To configure OpenSSH, pass an 'openssh-configuration'
                 ;; record as a second argument to 'service' below.
                 (service openssh-service-type)
                 (set-xorg-configuration
                  (xorg-configuration (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))

           ;; This is the default list of services we
           ;; are appending to.
           %desktop-services))
  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                (bootloader grub-bootloader)
                (targets (list "/dev/vda"))
                (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
  (swap-devices (list (swap-space
                        (target (uuid
                                 "666id")))))

  ;; The list of file systems that get "mounted".  The unique
  ;; file system identifiers there ("UUIDs") can be obtained
  ;; by running 'blkid' in a terminal.
  (file-systems (cons* (file-system
                         (mount-point "/")
                         (device (uuid
                                  "666id"
                                  'ext4))
                         (type "ext4")) %base-file-systems)))

This is just to run in a VM in Virtual Machine Manager

As a turk this was so fucking disappointing. Like really. This was our THIRD world cup, and every fucking time we fail to qualify because we are a mid tier team and in groups with giants, then face titans in the playoffs and get blown out.

The one time we make it, get placed into a group with other mid teams , then proceed to fail hard against places with barely any football history.

Fucking two out of USA, Australia and Paraguay should have been easy wins for fucks sake. Australia has so many other sports that people go for instead, USA has the same, and Paraguay aren’t that good in the first place.

not because jenkins is super old

I mean, I just updated the wallpaper on that machine to be Ask Jeeves for maximum millennial retro points for when I use it and can tell at a glance which stupid VM I am looking at.

But isn’t this the beauty of Linux? There is an option for everyone. Like you very well put it: you do you.

Yep. I fucking hate current gnome but I’m glad it exists for someone who is into it, and that they are marching to the beat of their own drum. I just don’t want to hear it. I literally made a post on this.

I am curious to find out more about Bunsen Labs.

I’d say that if you’re using such up to date hardware that you need the latest kernels and drivers, you probably don’t need the handholding of mint, so you might want to prefer fedora or arch or smth, and not Mint/Ubuntu.

You do you but…

god I hate Mate. The fucking config preferences never worked properly across “profiles/saves/whatever” for me.

I like LXQT most. I tried out basically every DE under the sun in a VM (and KDE and Gnome on bare metal. Gnome as part of Nyarch to rescue my wife’s old tower and to see wtf it was like. It crashed and fucked up. Not sure if it was due to Ny or arch, but obv not a good fit)

Yes, even Sugar. Please do not try Sugar.

Containers are the answer to “why is my hard drive completely full”

What morons!

*Hides 100gb of VM images in /var/lib/libvirt/images/ on his 230gb SSD*

Bias : I use debian for my own machine.

I have two machines on Mint I am responsible for; one craptop with LMDE and one tower for my Mrs with Ubuntu Mint.

I hate fucking about with the tower more than the craptop. The laptop is just as easy to use and was just as easy to install and everything. The only thing I needed to do was to replace cinnamon with XFCE in an attempt to make it run faster since the craptop has like 2gb ram.

They don’t actually have to be helpful, just have the appearance of being able to do something about it, like those praying to Trump.

hen they’re not making essential medical breakthroughs

If furries are so good at medical breakthroughs, how come they haven’t invented cat ear transplant technology?

Turning Point Anti-fur.

*Gets shot*

ok sure. but FYI, venv is basically the same thing if it’s python based.

… virtual environments?