I recently bought a used alienware x14 r1 from a co-worker but if I hadn’t I would have picked up one of these if I knew about the company. The configurability (and upgradability) is very appealing to me.
One of these will be my next laptop I think.
I run Guix and agree that unfortunately a decent amount of applications (that I use) aren’t packaged for Guix. To me it’s the biggest con of using Guix.
I have the Nix package manager installed on my machines and will install an application using that when no guix package exists. Not a perfect solution but it works for me. The benefits of Guix makes it worth it.
Maybe one of these years I’ll get around to learning how to package software for Guix.
I’ve had a similiar experience to yours but with Guix.
Been using linux for 7+ years, first distro was mint, then I moved to manjaro, for the last couple years I’ve been using Guix, a Nix inspired distro.
It’s funny you mention this. This past weekend I installed Guix onto an alienware x14 r1. Install went pretty well, some minor hiccups. No issues regarding audio that I could see.
On sunday I tried to use the microphone and speakers and they wouldn’t work. I plugged a set of headphones into the aux jack and still no luck.
Gnome sound settings just shows “Dummy Output” for speaker and no source for the microphone.
Yesterday to get more info on the issue, I plugged the same headphones into a usb-c port (using aux to usb-c adapter) and I was getting sound (through headphones) and the microphone worked (tested everything in goodle meet).
When I have the headphones plugged in, gnome sound settings shows valid devices for speakers and the microphone.
Just Weird.
I used to use manjaro for four-ish years. Good times.
I now run Guix btw.
kill -9 that motherfucker.
Or maybe his tongue.