I am thinking about moving to Guix, and was wondering what you all think of Shepherd?

What are things you like? What are its shortcomings? Any cool or weird things you wish you knew before using it?

For context, I am currently using Runnit.

  • @Doom4535
    2•1 month ago

    I miss ‘systemctl poweroff’ (haven’t learned the new herd equivalent); also, ‘herd --help’ doesn’t really give any useful information and only lists a few things you can do… Have to really dig into the documentation (someday). Also, the ‘shutdown’ syntax has changed… Otherwise, most stuff has gone well

      • @Doom4535
        1•1 month ago

        What I mean with shutdown, is the flags have changed (So, I can’t do ‘shutdown -hP’ or ‘shutdown -hP now’)

          • @Doom4535
            1•1 month ago

            Dang, I had no idea and never thought to inspect it; thank you for pointing that out, now maybe I can finally figure out how to nicely shutdown from the terminal