What are your opinions of Guix?

posted 1 year ago

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I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

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jaeme@lemmy.ml

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1 year ago

OP didn’t clarify whether they were talking about Guix System or Guix the package manager, but a great use case for Guix (and for Nix as well) is it can be installed on top of a stable distro (or a distro that provides binary blobs) like Debian or POP!_OS to get the latest versions of desired packages.

Just wanted to mention that.

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1 year ago

OP didn’t clarify whether they were talking about Guix System or Guix the package manager

That was actually deliberate. I pretty much figured it’s niche enough to discuss them all together without confusion.

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