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In Guix's case, a working desktop with wayland + proprietary Nvidia drivers. (I'm actually using Kinoite, which is the KDE spin of silverblue)

I could install Guix on top of something like Ubuntu or Fedora workstation for the same effect, but then I'll have two system package managers side by side, which is pointless and probably error prone.

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You can do that with NixOS trivially.

And of course with Guix System. (odd to always see Nix* mentioned when someone talks about Guix.)

Well, Nix was mentioned a few posts up... But in general, Guix is directly based off of Nix and is seen by many as "Nix + Guile + GNU". Is it odd to see people talking about a different BSD in a {Free,Open,Net,*}BSD thread?

Guix is quite different from it's origins, though some of the oldest part of the daemon are still from the Nix days, if I understand. It will one day be rewritten in all Guile, presumably.

Well, Guix is also mentioned when someone talks about Nix, seems fair to me (and of course, Guix may be more relevant sometimes!).

Comparing https://wiki.systemcrafters.cc/guix/nvidia/ with https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia makes me think that in this specific case there's a difference.

A question for nonguix contributors, including OP: is there a reason that nonguix has an nvidia package but not an nvidia service that handles more of this in a streamlined way, even just some stuff copied and pasted from this wiki?

There's an ongoing effort to smooth out the entire Nvidia process, e.g. https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/-/issues/198 has the current discussion. As anyone that has dealt with Nvidia on Linux, it is always a bit of a hassle and the effort hasn't yet happened to make it as smooth in Guix as other distros. We're getting there though.

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