GNU Guix
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“It solves all of these issues, and already has a good story both for cross and native builds on a variety of architectures.”
“Credit where due that Guix did this first”
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“I use a Guix manifest for every project”
“I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old laptop for the last few months.”
Caveats and dissent
“Guix being ideologically opposed to supporting macOS”
“IRL it's too much hassle: weak package coverage, weak ecosystem, a steep learning curve”
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“IRL it's too much hassle: weak package coverage, weak ecosystem, a steep learning curve”
“I tried guix but it was too slow and guix uses a lot of RAM during updates”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“The idea was to show that there are several "levels" to take advantage of Guix for development”
Threads where it came up
- Guix for Development 3 mentions
- Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS 2 mentions
- GNU Guix 1.5.0 Released 2 mentions
- NixOS is making me less afraid 1 mention
- Back to the future: modules for Guix packages (2022) 1 mention
- Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux 1 mention
Also written as GNU Guix. Data: gnu-guix.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 15
“Guix being ideologically opposed to supporting macOS”
“IRL it's too much hassle: weak package coverage, weak ecosystem, a steep learning curve”
“IRL it's too much hassle: weak package coverage, weak ecosystem, a steep learning curve”
“I love Guix, I just hate that it requires such an invasive installation for it to work.”
“I tried guix but it was too slow and guix uses a lot of RAM during updates”
“It solves all of these issues, and already has a good story both for cross and native builds on a variety of architectures.”
“it uses a SHELL that is a guix shell, which references channels and manifest, to ensure reproducibility”
“one year ago I did install Guix on a separate partition of my desktop PC”
“Credit where due that Guix did this first”
“I use a Guix manifest for every project”
“I've had a passing curiosity about Guix”
“Wow, same experience as the last three times.”
“In Guix, you either deploy with all libraries on a custom /guix path, or nothing.”
“I love Guix documentation”
“I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old laptop for the last few months.”