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After a restless day, I finally set up my #guix system with the root filesystem on tmpfs!

I've documented the process in my dotfiles repository: codeberg.org/look/misako/src/b

This has been on my to-do list for quite some time, I hope my steps can help others who are looking to do the same.

Big thanks to @Z572 and @anemofilia for some file-system ideas.

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@joel I like the idea of having a stateless system, this way every time I reboot my PC I'm pretty much spinning a fresh install of my system without any extra steps, it feels refreshing and uncluttered.
Declarative systems such as GNU Guix make this very easy to setup and maintain, and for me this is a must-have for a perfect setup.
There are a lot more benefits to it like runtime system reproducibility.
The next step for me would be home on tmpfs, I'll get there eventually.

Look

@khleedril Hacking on guix is so much fun and addictive to me, I wish I could work on my setup all day every day.
Would be really nice if we had declarative system installations, it's on my to-do list, I might tackle it at some point. Maybe somewhere in the future spinning guix root on tmpfs will be as easy as adding an entry to operating-system.

Kirtai

@look @Z572 @anemofilia
Oooh cool. I've been wondering how to do that kind of setup with Guix.

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