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What are your opinions of Guix?

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Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

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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Spore@lemmy.ml
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Nobody has mentioned that Guix is readily available on NixOS right now? Add a line to your config and it’s ready to go. Compatible with everything else.

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LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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How about the other way around? I want to switch to Guix, but I want to keep using Nixpkgs for the time being?

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You can use Nix on Guix System and vice versa, but it’s like installing them as a package manager on a foreign system. The store and packages currently are completely isolated between the two, although there’s a very early plan for a common store interface.

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