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I did some research on guix when i was deciding which one of the two i was going to try as a daily driver.
My conclusion was that choosing guix would mean choosing a smaller community and amount of support for a better language.
Would love your opinion if youve done your research on it. Why choose guix over nixos?
I used both NixOS and GNU Guix System, and my conclusion is the same. Things are already hard on NixOS, in Guix it's order of magnitudes harder. Not worth it at all. Besides, there's a flake for using Guix on NixOS, so can just use that.
That sort of thing is another great reason to love nix.
Thank you for the reply :)