GNU Guile or Racket. from the language side every scheme is a scheme though. it kinda depends what you want to do with it

SICP is great for a very general in-depth intro

it is a solution to your problem whether you like it or not

guix shell audacity – audacity

to just use

guix install audacity

to install it

i guess it’s a great time for a new whistleblower

what’s mildly infuriating about that?

so Ascension uses anything or no computing at all?

it’s as simple as

(command argument0 argument1 argument2)

meaning arguments 0, 1 and 2 are applied to command. when an expression is evaluated it dissolves into a value according to its context.

(+ 1 2 3)
; evaluates to 6 in a context where + actually means an addition or sum operation

(* 2 (+ 4 3))
; evaluates to 14 (i think)

the absolute killer feature is the elimination of idiotic, man-made madness excused with the term “operator precedence”

you might have to read what all those options are about. also, what you are referring to as ethernet may or may not be a specific driver, and tty itself is a somewhat abstract concept, maybe you mean serial - which is often addressed by or attached to TTYs?

make menuconfig should guide you through all possible options and enable you to browse and navigate all the dependencies. maybe deselect all first and then select only the ones you want?