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  • Shane Rogersswrogers@social.lol
    Jun 20, 2026, 9:32 PM

    @simendsjo @futurile Yeah, I like the idea of going with a private channel for a lot of my settings. Currently any dotfile stuff I want to keep around are in YADM. I only note that my old doom emacs config was a tad hairy, due to using a literate conf - but I suppose that one could even tangle out the Guix config eventually. Probably not something I'll jump to though.

    The one thing I'll have to read up on the most, I think, is key storage and pass management.

    I'll get there, though.

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  • simendsjosimendsjo@fosstodon.org
    Jun 20, 2026, 10:00 PM

    @swrogers @futurile I have one public channel, one work public channel, and two private channels. For passwords I just use password store. I don't want to keep secrets in the store, even encrypted, so I manually add secrets to special files for the user which needs them.

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  • futurilefuturile@mastodon.social
    Jun 21, 2026, 9:25 AM

    @swrogers @simendsjo Seems like you're getting there Shane!

    I agree with Simens insight of "don't do it all at once". Generally, I've noticed that when people bounce of Guix it's often doing something 'complicated' early on. Rather than using an incremental approach.

    It's very different from other Linux distros so previous knowledge is sometimes less useful - as we expect things to work in certain ways! It rewards learning one area at a time, e.g. master guix system then guix home etc

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