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by davexunit 4228 days ago
Guix is a package manager and a GNU/Linux distribution, whereas Chef and Puppet are configuration management systems that work with a number of different distros.

So, rather than using Puppet + Debian or something, you would probably just use Guix, because Guix has system configuration tools[0]. Guix (Nix, too) solves system management problems from the bottom, at the systems level. Other tools tack it on top of existing operating systems.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#System-Co...