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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]▶

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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. rolandog ◴[19 Jul 25 09:58 UTC] No.44614065[source]▶

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I think that also one needs to be familiar with modifying the guix daemon service to allow substitutes be downloaded so that you don't have to build derivations [0], [1].

Once you modify the guix daemon service and approve the substitute server keys with `guix archive`, your experience should be much faster.

[0]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Substitute-Server-A...

[1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Getting-Substitutes...

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