[fransje26]

Out of personal interest, do you also make use of the non-free parts of Guix? And if so, how well do they work, and how well are they documented compared to the "core" part? The orthodoxy of free software purity is nice, but I unfortunately also need to get CUDA working.

I tried Nix a few times, but the documentation was so lacking and/or outdated that I couldn't figure out how to get the setup I needed working, and I had to drop the idea as I couldn't justify the time investment that would be needed to prod around in the dark until everything worked.

[Zambyte]

Can't speak to CUDA as all of my systems run AMD or Intel at this point, but I use the nonguix channel for the mainline Linux kernel. I even built a custom iso using the mainline kernel, since my servers NIC requires non-free blobs. The process for doing that was surprisingly easy to me.

Between the nonguix README and other resources like systemcrafters, you're in pretty good company as far as the documentation for non-free things to.

Edit: less related but I still wanted to mention:

Guix makes extensive use of the info[0][1] system for documentation also. There is essentially a textbook worth of information locally on the machine, which is generally what I use instead of turning to the web.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/info-stnd/info-s...

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/info.htm...

[fransje26]

Thank you for your feedback and the information!

[rekado]

CUDA is available in the guix-science-nonfree channel. https://hpc.guix.info/channels/non-free/