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I need to use the Realtek WiFi card. Guix comes with a Libre kernel, which does not have proprietary blobs. In fact, even Firefox is missing from their repository. GNU folks avoid proprietary software religiously.
There is a pre built distribution, you need to configure binary cache to get it. Refer to the “Substitute for nonguix” section: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
Can’t you just use the standard Linux kernel? You can just tell GUIX to use the standardized kernel in its config file
I need to use the Realtek WiFi card. Guix comes with a Libre kernel, which does not have proprietary blobs. In fact, even Firefox is missing from their repository. GNU folks avoid proprietary software religiously.
You can swap it with the standard one. It’s on another non-official channel called nonguix.
I am using nonguix actually. We still have to build while using nonguix, right? Or is there a pre-built kernel available?
There is a pre built distribution, you need to configure binary cache to get it. Refer to the “Substitute for nonguix” section: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix