Great news! Anyone using Guix as their daily driver? How is your experience?
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Been daily-driving Guix on 3 different machines for about 3 years. Love the declarative configs and rollbacks, and being able to easy share configuration with Scheme snippets between machines. I know that once I get something working on one, I have it permanently working for all my machines.
I know that once I get something working on one, I have it permanently working for all my machines.
That sounds awesome
The tradeoff is that there's a Guixy way to do things that might not be obvious from the upstream docs, so could be harder to get e.g. a service up and running initially, but for me the reproducibility makes it a good tradeoff.
It also solves some really hard problems when building and distributing complex software with numerous dependencies. In a way, it is fullfilling the promises that docker, flatpaks, snap etc can't keep.
I do; 'been my daily driver for 2 years (maybe 3?), now.
My experience has, generally, been great. You get the same minimal instability you'd get from any rolling distro but the stability you get from it being declarative and reproducible is fantastic; I, also, like being able to use my favorite programming language for my config. (and pretty much everywhere).
I , also, like being able to use my favorite programming language for my config. (and pretty much everywhere).
Scheme, especially Guile, is like Clojure a joy of elegance and simplicity to use in one.
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I've more-or-less daily-driven Guix System since 2023. I enjoy that there are very few things I "can't" do, just things I haven't learnt the "Guixy" way of doing yet. Sometimes that can be frustrating, but once I figure it out maintenance is a cinch and stability is unmatched. It's an experience for stretchy minds, I think, but I like it.
I spent a few clicks on the site trying to figure out what guix is and does.
It's a distro. Saved you a click.
Guix is a package manager you can install on most distros and works beside other package managers, similar to Snap and Flatpak. And it's a distro.
Guix is much more and takes management of software dependencies to a new level.
Here is my recent summary of it:
https://feddit.org/post/23120439
see also, for a discussion in c/linux,
It is like Nix, but cleaner.
(but-with 'nix (lots-of 'parenthesis))
Build tool, package builder, package manager, configuration manager, and a distro built on those aspects. You can use any aspect indepently though