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I feel someone should say something about guix here. I don’t have anything worth saying about either though

• k__ 6y ago
  Nix and Guix are the next generation of package management. Nix is more idiosyncratic, since Guix usies S-expression syntax. Also, Guix is free software, with everything that entails.
• ubadair 6y ago
  I spent a couple weeks casually studying about both, and finally hitched my wagon to Guix. The careful separation of free and non-free software is incredibly refreshing. I appreciate the emphasis on building packages from source. The docs are great and so is the Guile language. It didn't take me long to get a bootable USB with proprietary drivers and mainline kernel, even though I thought this would be much more difficult.
• rixed 6y ago
  Anecdote about the subjective difference between using both: I've used nix and nixos on and off since the early versions, but it never really clicked with me, and every time I want to write or just read nix expressions I have to reread lots of documentation like I'm starting from scratch again, whereas I would probably still be able to write a debian package from memory alone despite many years of lack of practice. This leave me with the impression that nix has to be a full time job. In another hand, I gave guix a try recently and was really surprised by how easily all the pieces fell together "naturally". Also guix being a smaller community, it might counter intuitively be moving faster (due to less care for not breaking things or less bureaucracy, depending on your views). Indeed, another issue I have with nix is how jammed their input queue of PRs is.
  • bb010g 6y ago
    I'd say the PR quite is less bureaucracy and more a high number of packages with not enough hands to process them all.