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The Search for a Sustainable Operating System - Part 1 - Updates vs. Stability vs. Virtualisation

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After using Arch Linux and Manjaro Linux for years I just figured out, that I download a lot of software only to update my system. It was...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435153

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435152
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I want to find the most sustainable operating system, because computers nowadays waste a lot of energy, because of data collection and data processing. Avoiding unnecessary processes and using resources in a mindful way could reduce the CO2 output on the whole world.
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They may wish to look into Gnu Guix (and possibly nonguix channels depending on their needs)
- What exactly do you mean by that? Is Guix sustainable?
  
  in every sense of the word.
  Full source code control, nothing included that you don't ask for, substitutes for those wanting to reduce energy requirements as a collective group.
  Oh and can be productively used on a system powered exclusively by a $5 solar panel.
  
  Full source code control, nothing included that you don’t ask for,... It still doesn't mean it is sustainable if it's about the invested/wasted energy.
  I still don't understand how exactly Guix works, but it looks like it's like flatpak or other virtualization software, which has redundant software in it's containers and keep huge junks of software to update something (much bigger than updating single binaries), which costs a lot of energy to transfer over the internet.
  I tried to follow a presentation about Guix, but I am more confused than before. It looks like people can't explain in simple word what Guix is or what makes it special.
  Oh and can be productively used on a system powered exclusively by a $5 solar panel.
  Okay, this part is really interesting, because it's pretty hard to power even a raspberry pi 4 with such a small solar panel. Which hardware do you use with it?
  
  well as you can buy solar panels at $0.50/W so a 10W panel can be obtained for $5 and a raspberry pi4 only uses 2.7W while idle and 6.4W when under full load.