cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/46349730
Given the direction that the Nix project is going, I suspect that many of you Nix users reading along here are currently considering alternatives, and among them Guix.
Personally I’ve only been using Nix for a few weeks, so my investment is not that big, but how about you? For a technical comparison, you could start with these two articles. If you’re on IRC, I’d also suggest to join #guix just in case or look at the other communication options they endorse on their website.
What gives me the most thoughts is the availability of recent-ish software on Guix; but given Guix’s FSF-level copyleft culture there’s at least the certainty that whatever efforts I might put in to build and package things myself would have the lowest-possible likelihood of suffering corporate/fashtech capture. And we may be picking up momentum to collectively alleviate those problems.
I’m mainly on NixOS but not because I prefer that way, just I got it working to a point that it’s comfortable to run for now.
I’d give Guix a shot as well when I have some spare time to play around :)
Cool :) I have most experience with openSUSE, so what I think I’ll do is dual-boot Guix and openSUSE on my laptop, perhaps with a shared home directory or at least shared data directories.
never got the chance to try openSUSE, started with Debian in my early days, then Arch and finally stuck with Gentoo for a few years; if it makes you feel like home it’s all that matters