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I only briefly looked at Guix. I think there is an arguement that it has a better language. Besides that I'm not sure what one gains compared to NixOS. Overall

I only briefly looked at Guix. I think there is an arguement that it has a better language. Besides that I'm not sure what one gains compared to NixOS. Overall Guix looked nice but it is very opinionated on the free-software issue which really hurts its adoptability. It is also a niche sibling of an already niche distro so I doubt it would be used in (real) production any time soon. The community & related projects around NixOS are also very compelling. Structured flakes like devos [1] and developer tools like direnv/nix-shell make getting started very easy. I'm not sure if the same can be said about Guix (I'll admit I having been keeping a close eye on it). The darwin (MacOS) compatability is also a huge selling point since a lot of MacOS developers already need tools like Homebrew. [1] https://github.com/divnix/devos https://github.com/divnix/devos

Dracophoenix 5y ago
Just to note,a brief look and a close eye aren't exactly the same thing. I agree that, at this stage Guix will have as much success as Hurd does in becoming a production ready system. But I do think there might be some form of borrowing between the Nix and Guix. In my case however, I'd rather have an Arch-based system with NixOS's clean architecture.