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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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cestith ◴[02 Sep 25 19:34 UTC] No.45107958[source]▶
The locales package has over 265k installs in the same recent report that lists 231 copies of guix. That’s less than 0.09% or so.
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[02 Sep 25 19:38 UTC] No.45108011[source]▶
By the same virtue, https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox only lists 5749 installs of firefox. I'd take it with a grain of salt.
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1. cestith ◴[03 Sep 25 13:21 UTC] No.45115445[source]▶
Besides the point already made about firefox-esr being the default package for Firefox, here are a couple of other points. First, that also means there are 5749 installations of non-default Firefox compared to 231 of guix.

Secondly, popcon works on servers and headless systems without X or Wayland. Those systems still use a package manager, and sometimes several. A graphical web browser like Firefox is unlikely to be installed without a GUI. I’ve seen plenty of systems with Snap, Flatpak, or Nix installed besides the OS-related apt, aptible, apt-get, rpm, yum, dnf, and language-related tools like pip, EasyInstall, rubygems, Bundler, cpanm, npm, cargo, OPAM, Composer, go get, or sbt with no GUI.