I think that the earlyoom service is a necessity for a Guix system desktop.
For those who don't know what it does, EarlyOOM (early out-of-memory) is a daemon that kills applications when the amount of memory available falls below a certain percentage of the maximum, by default 10%. There is already an OOM killer in the kernel, but it's too lax and applications that consume too much memory can cause the system to freeze. I've used this for a while and many times it has kicked in and works well for my laptop. I think adding it to the default desktop services will give Guix System on desktop greater stability, which would encourage adoption of Guix System on the desktop What do you, reader, think?
