wait until you try emacs
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I have never used nix or nixos. I liked their shared idea (functional, atomic, reproducible systems), and so when I looked at their differences they seemed to all be pros for guix:
- Clearer, more robust, more centralized documentation
- GNU Project
- Guile Scheme (Lisp) as opposed to Nix DSL
- Unparalleled emacs integration
The only bittersweet aspect of guix compared to nix was the foss only stuff, as I do need some proprietary drivers, but nonguix is so easy it hasn’t been a practical issue. And of course I am big advocate of free software so I like that guix is pushing that forward.
There’s also a theoretical issue that guix has less packages, but the standard channel + nonguix has had everyhing I use.
Where is that from? It is extremely pessimistic and obviously false.