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by the_duke
1611 days ago
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Guix is cool but has two big drawbacks: The major one: package ecosystem. Nix has the largest and most up to date package repo of any distro [1]). Nix is already somewhat niche, but the Guix community is tiny. They also have a hard stance against proprietary software, so many things that are packaged for Nix aren't for Guix. Second: it's pretty slow. A lot of the Nix functionality is implemented in C++ . Guix is all written in Scheme, and uses a rather slow implementation. The main advantage is more coherent tooling and documentation. (Guix is much younger and doesn't have decades of legacy cruft) [1] https://repology.org/repositories/statistics |
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Would love to see benchmarks of this if you have them.