Been daily-driving Guix on 3 different machines for about 3 years. Love the declarative configs and rollbacks, and being able to easy share configuration with Scheme snippets between machines. I know that once I get something working on one, I have it permanently working for all my machines.
It also solves some really hard problems when building and distributing complex software with numerous dependencies. In a way, it is fullfilling the promises that docker, flatpaks, snap etc can’t keep.
The tradeoff is that there’s a Guixy way to do things that might not be obvious from the upstream docs, so could be harder to get e.g. a service up and running initially, but for me the reproducibility makes it a good tradeoff.
Been daily-driving Guix on 3 different machines for about 3 years. Love the declarative configs and rollbacks, and being able to easy share configuration with Scheme snippets between machines. I know that once I get something working on one, I have it permanently working for all my machines.
That sounds awesome
It also solves some really hard problems when building and distributing complex software with numerous dependencies. In a way, it is fullfilling the promises that docker, flatpaks, snap etc can’t keep.
The tradeoff is that there’s a Guixy way to do things that might not be obvious from the upstream docs, so could be harder to get e.g. a service up and running initially, but for me the reproducibility makes it a good tradeoff.