I'm planning to build a brand new gaming PC with guix installed. Is this a good idea? I know of non-guix, but does that have enough support for what Id need for linux gaming? (e.g. kernel with proprietary drivers, cpu microcode, steam, etc etc). Ive found some stuff on the web regarding this, but not much
Ive been meaning to start buying more games from GOG because of the lack of DRM...maybe this will be the push I need. Steam is just so convenient
Finally got my build working after some RAM issues...gonna try installing guix in the next couple days
good luck 🙂
Awesome thanks! I was planning to use steam/lutris anyway, so that works perfectly for me
I've been using Arch (btw) for years and years now, but I really like the idea of functional package management - I've been using nix on my mac laptop for work and its been great
You probably won't be able to manage your games using function package management, however if your games are installable via Lutris or Steam, both are available via flatpak and work well for me.
flatpak might also provide some options for some games
http://gog.com should also work well with guix, most (all?) of the games on there don't have DRM afaik
Successfully installed over the weekend! Ran into some issue with my mouse cursor not showing up in Xorg, but Wayland seems to be working just fine. It was fairly easy to setup nonguix to get all the non-libre stuff. I'm really enjoying being able to essentially setup my entire system in a scheme file and go back and forth between generations, its already saved me at least twice from breaking my system. Flatpak and Steam seem to "just work" as well, which is great.
What kind of a machine are you running guix on? Did you have any network-related driver issues?
its a brand new AM5 desktop with new Radeon GPU, no network related issues but I'm using ethernet so I cant imagine there would be any
x670e chipset, 7800x3d cpu, 7900xt gpu
That's very nice! Enjoy!