Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

Guix SD will never catch on as long as they force non-systemd management. I don’t care to try Shepherd. Systemd is good enough and it has won.

> I had to use nonguix to get internet working on the machine, which had very immediate technical effects that bring me to

Stuff like this will

The main reasons I’m interested in guix:

- it uses a known-good language (lisp)

- IIRC it is more repeatable (the contents used in derivations play into the hash).

- It has a full source bootstrap

Maybe someone with a focus on improving UX needs to build one of these afresh.

I also don't care to try Wayland. Xorg has already won

A lot of people would argue avoiding systemd bloat as a plus

The end user interface for shepherd and systemd are very similar. And probably the least of your worries migrating to a declarative distro