"Quitting your job to make games" is just like quitting your job to write your novel
I think it's actually worse since you can't directly make money from the game while making it. You can stream for example, but it requires a completely different skillset.
Compare that to, for example, writers releasing chapters on royal road, getting some funding through patreon while writing (in return for advanced chapters), and quitting their jobs when the book sales pick up. Like yeah it's still really hard to make good money, but the possibility of slowly progressing into full time writing is why people can try to do it.
I've used it without those issues on cinnamon, xfce, and a variety of of tiling WMs. It fails to connect sometimes, but that happens on KDE as well, and I most certainly didn't need to reauth every time I connect to the network. So idk what you're talking about.
wouldn’t it be better to do it on our own terms rather than in a global catastrophe?
The catastrophy is inevitable, it's just a question of whether any humans will survive.
For example CO2 has a delayed effect of ~40years (if I remember correctly). The effects of global warming are very much obvious now, but the yearly output hasn't at any point dropped to those levels since.
Transportation of goods is mostly a capitalist issue. You don't need to cover a cucumber with plastic and ship it half way across the world, while selling the local ones to richer countries. The same goes for the vast majority of "goods". Remove all of that greedy, superfluous shit, and you're left with minimal shipping needs.
Also, I can unterstand if companies are hating it which just want to have a free ride and monetize efforts of other people. But for users, there are many many other options and distributions available. Why not chose one that matches your need better?
Why get mad about people comparing nix and guix, in a thread comparing nix and guix? Pointing out legitimate disadvantages is not hating. Maybe get off the internet for a bit and touch grass.
It has top-priority goals like reproducibility, capability to inspect and verify all source code, and providing a fully free system that is not compatible with providing nonfree binary blobs.
So does nix, nobody is forcing you to opt-in into non-free packages. And guix most certainly is compatible with non-free blobs, as that's how most people are using it. The only difference is that nix is supporting non-free packages instead of banning even talking about them.
Guix channels are just git repos with lists of package definitions. You need to manually add non-official repos, and all git contribution controls apply.
Edit: non-official repos are closer to Ubuntu PPA-s. Don't really see how they relate to AUR apart from being user generated.
The kernel is GPL, so it is hard to get support for hardware with drivers without GPL, it does not conform Linux' license.
It's a violation that's not enforced, as almost all distros provide proprietary blobs. They balance ideology with usability, since they realised most people aren't going to use a librebooted ThinkPad from the 90s. If everyone enforced libre purism like GNU, desktop Linux would've been completely dead long ago. If you need proof, check usage statistics for any of the free distros.
I, too, had also nothing but hassle with an NVidia graphics card in Debian.
And did you need to install a modified iso to have WiFi? Did maybe Debian provide those nvidia drivers?
The other thing... let's turn the question around. Would you:
How is any of that relevant? This is not a question of additional software or services, but basic usability. Guixos as is, is for example essentially useless on a laptop unless you're willing to carry an external WiFi card in your pocket.
If not - why do some people expect equivalent things from free software projects?
The only expectation I have for an OS is to work on my devices, guixos does not. And even when I jumped through all of the hoops to get it working, I still needed to use nix to install most packages I need to work. So why would I use guixos+nix+flatpak instead of just running nixos?
Why the hell would you use arch for browser centric use? Literally any stable distro would work perfectly fine, and doesn't risk failing to boot because of an update...
I really like it as well, it conveys the purity of the blessed machine, and the impermanence of the fleshbags.