He also did some hacking work.

How did you make Guix work for you? Every time I’ve tried to use it, it was terrible (90 minutes for reconfigure and required internet access, just to remove GNOME).

“Make the magic smoke escape”

exception 0x0e PAGE_FAULT (not present)

This sounds very similar to ObsidianOS.

I found that Limine (bootloader) has the fastest decryption when paired with LUKS at least for my laptop.

Limine does not have decryption, that’s just the linux kernel.