Hello David, Thanks for providing feedback.
You make it sound like GuixSD is unusable on real hardware due to the lack of proprietary firmware, but reality is different. I think this section I wrote a while back pretty accurately reflects the situation: https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html On many laptops WiFi doesn’t work out of the box because they come with Intel WiFi chips and Intel denies its customers the 4 freedoms, security, and privacy. Lack of WiFi is an important issue of course, but it’s easily worked around and it’s pretty much the only issue. Perhaps you take hardware support in GNU/Linux for granted. When I started using GNU/Linux, things like sound support or graphics mode support or webcams would often be missing—things were a lot more difficult in practice. It’s the dedicated work of volunteers that brought us drivers for all this. I don’t feel any pressure to give in proprietary software for the extra 1% convenience it’d bring me. Now, as others pointed out, GuixSD doesn’t prevent you from running the software you want. As you know, GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH serves this purpose: you can easily extend the distro and tweak it to your needs. One last thing: please don’t describe political struggles as “religion.” It’s unnecessarily offensive, especially when talking to an atheist. Happy hacking, and consider using ‘guix environment’ to ease your new hacking life! :-) Ludo’.
