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Removing Guix from Debian

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Arcuru ◴[02 Sep 25 19:05 UTC] No.45107598[source]▶
> According to Debian's popularity contest (popcon) statistics, there are not quite 230 systems with Guix installed.
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JohnFen ◴[02 Sep 25 19:27 UTC] No.45107878[source]▶
But most people using Debian turn popcon off. I don't at all doubt that Guix is not used by most people, but I'm quite certain the number of users is well above 230.
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1. gorgoiler ◴[02 Sep 25 19:37 UTC] No.45107996[source]▶
For comparison, git has ~155,000 installs and the common base packages have ~266,000:

https://popcon.debian.org/index.html