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by thomastjeffery 3176 days ago
Community.

There may even be community-based sources for non-free packages, but they are explicitly ignored by the Guix project.
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hackermailman 3176 days ago
Anybody can run guix publish however and self publish their own non-free substitutes if they wanted, plus there's all the existing non-free substitute servers around, and you can try your luck with guix import from nixpkgs. The community won't help anybody if they ask for help with non-free software though.

I haven't missed any non-free packages since switching to Guix surprisingly, I always seem to find a free alternative though my daily req are pretty basic.

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thomastjeffery 3175 days ago
> plus there's all the existing non-free substitute servers around

Where?

> The community won't help anybody if they ask for help with non-free software though.

This, specifically, is where Nix has the advantage.

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