Given the direction that the Nix project is going, I suspect that many of you Nix users reading along here are currently considering alternatives, and among them Guix.

Personally I’ve only been using Nix for a few weeks, so my investment is not that big, but how about you? For a technical comparison, you could start with these two articles. If you’re on IRC, I’d also suggest to join #guix just in case or look at the other communication options they endorse on their website.

What gives me the most thoughts is the availability of recent-ish software on Guix; but given Guix’s FSF-level copyleft culture there’s at least the certainty that whatever efforts I might put in to build and package things myself would have the lowest-possible likelihood of suffering corporate/fashtech capture. And we may be picking up momentum to collectively alleviate those problems.

  • david_@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Fittingly, just two days ago they did open up a Mastodon account — this one: https://hachyderm.io/@guix. I’d say be sure to boost their initial toot and possibly more.

    From an email that just appeared on the devel list:

    Hi,

    As you will have seen GNU Guix is now on Mastodon - we have entered the social media age: https://hachyderm.io/@guix

    The goal of being on Mastodon is it’s another communications method (like the blog an email lists) that we can tell people about GNU Guix, but also engage with people about Guix and related topics.

    It would be great to have a few people who’d like to regularly post and engage. Anyone interested?

    …