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NixOS, I have a fetish for configuration files
I'm currently doing my second pass of Nix after diving deep into it last time and coming out unsatisfied. The same problems that I had before with it are problems I'm seeing again:
Contrast that with my last Guix experience:
The only problem with Guix that I can see is that it's not as popular
Flakes are extremely simple (my whole system is a flake: https://github.com/cmargiotta/dotfiles ), but they are basically not documented.
The grammar is really really bad, I prefere a lot the Guix one too! I am using NixOS only because the last time I tried Guix I didn't find a lot of packages for their extremist GNU policy (I agree, but I need some packages), is it still like that?
Yes and no -- there are now non-free repos (so you can install firefox for example), and even non-free binary repos too.
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