On 2026-06-15 18:35, Sébastien Gendre wrote: > Hello everyone. > > What is the minimum hardware requirements you would suggest for running > Guix System on a computer and having the Guix commands running in a > comfortable amount of time ? (Without using Guix deploy and local build > of system derivations) > > By a "comfortable amount of time", I mean to not have to wait 15 or 30 > minutes for most of the commands. > > I would love to have a server at home that run on Guix System, but all > my available hardware are old computers with Intel Atom or AMD Embedded > G series CPU. And when I do my testes, it was very slow. I would like to > get a new computer for this, but don't know what I should get for the > hardware. > > > Avec mes meilleurs salutations. > > ------- > Gendre Sébastien
I just ran 'time guix pull' on this Core i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8gb ram, 1tb ssd, in 7:33. This is an old Lenovo desktop machine. I do not know how old, I bought it at auction from a municipal agency 3 years ago. It's been a long time, but when I had a rockpro64 running guix pull took about 3 times as long iirc.
