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Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

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194 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 08:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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idlip ◴[15 Jul 25 17:11 UTC] No.44573461[source]▶
Its nice read. We need more of comparative posts by user familiar with both nix and guix.

We see bias with most discussions.

Only cons with Guix I see is, lack of infrastructure and less volunteers to work on guix eco-system. If its solved, I can imagine guix can improve exponentially.

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tempfile ◴[18 Jul 25 17:00 UTC] No.44607098[source]▶
The major con is in the article, it is super slow to update. Half an hour is just crazy, nobody will move to that if they know.
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1. nbf_1995 ◴[18 Jul 25 18:07 UTC] No.44607956[source]▶
From the article:

> My goal was to take my Unchartevice laptop with its strange Zhaoxin x86_64-compatible CPU...

> Sure, this is a laptop with a CPU broadly equivalent to old Intel Atom CPUs...

Yes, guix pull is slow, but the author is using some old/exotic hardware. The last time I tried guix on a 5th gen dual core i5, the initial pull was not that slow. And as other commenters have pointed out. The first pull is the slowest by far.