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by ayushnix 1709 days ago
> The biggest recurring issue is with graphic cards that have poor support in Linux and require firmware blobs and with WiFi cards that have no free drivers / firmware.

Intel, AMD, and Nvidia GPUS - all of them need firmware blobs to work as expected. Intel and AMD offer free drivers but not free firmware.

And if you want to WiFi 5 (ac) or WiFi 6 (ax), chances are that you'll need non-free drivers/firmware as well.

> The "nonguix" channel (hosted on Github) provides packages for vanilla Linux ("linux") in various versions, and also includes firmware packages that you can use in your config file.

Ah, that's good to know.

I'll probably give the Guix package manager a shot some day.