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by Filligree 850 days ago
It's (deliberately) difficult to discover. I tried GuixSD once, and bounced off it because of the apparent lack of support for my hardware, CUDA, Pytorch et al, which isn't an uncommon story apparently.

Now, seemingly there are channels that would deal with this. But when I asked through the official channels, I was told not to do that -- that is, "don't use nvidia dummy", which really isn't an option. I was never pointed to the non-free channel.

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I agree with that - directions for how to use Guix in practice, i.e. for someone who isn’t a GNU warrior using 15 year old hardware because you don’t need non-free blobs, need to be easier to come across.