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Guix is interesting, but I need to use proprietary Nvidia drivers to play games and it goes against Guix nature.
@JustMarkov @OneRedFox it’s against GNU recommendations, but the nature of open source is about modifications, adaptations, improvements and sharing… and so there is the non-gnu channel.
While true, there is the nonguix repository that packages both the proprietary Nvidia driver and Steam. Otherwise, you're probably better off going back to regular distributions based on the others that you've ruled out thus far.
There's the non guix channel which can be added very easily to guix! :)