[packetlost]

Not as bad as the guix crowd IMO. They're like the nix/Rust "just use XYZ" crowd but also combined with the GNU zealots so you get the perfect overlap of annoying software purists.

Really, I like the idea and I actually like the fact that they use Guile (scheme) instead of a home-built DSL, but guix is a horrible, poorly documented, doesn't work even on the happy path mess.

[robertlagrant]

Never heard of guix til now. An annoying piece of software with a cult-like following does sound up my street, though.

[b1n]

New GUIX user here. I've found the documentation to be good and the "zealots" seem very friendly - maybe take another look.

[rekado]

"poorly documented" is a new one for me. It's got one of the best manuals out there. A little short on examples maybe, but there's a separate cookbook with tutorials, and lots of blog posts.

But maybe I'm just a "GNU zealot".

[packetlost]

The documentation appears good, until you fall off the already very narrow happy-path to just get things working. I can't even get the hello-world program to work following the instructions exactly on a clean Ubuntu VM.

I didn't mean to imply everyone who uses it is a GNU zealot, but there's definitely a subset who are.

[sph]

I honestly never heard anyone on HN recommending Guix over Nix.

[packetlost]

I'm explicitly not recommending it. I want to like it, but it doesn't give me any reason to