Comment by 🚀 grouchy
Re: "Welcome to the Guix subspace"
Hi! I'll add something.
I'm a new guix user (this week) and I like it so far. I'm using it on a foreign system (right now Ubuntu). I err toward the "reproducible build" side. I thought that my forever OS would be NixOS and I started down the path of learning home-manager when I discovered guix and decided I liked Scheme a lot more than Haskell.
So far I've just set up a basic profile and installed a few pieces of software (Emacs / Lagrange / Kitty) but I'm hoping to expand that come up with a more robust, version-controlled setup.
2025-03-08 · 1 year ago
3 Later Comments ↓
🚀 rrobin [OP/mod] · 2025-03-14 at 10:48:
welcome grouchy - I definitely favour scheme over haskell too. Have fun setting and let us know if you need a hand.
🚀 Moonlight · Apr 05 at 20:26:
I used to use Guix - I like it's commandline interface and the universal usage of a single programming language. It became impractical for me at the time - I don't believe it's an impractical system, just at the time for me it was impractical for a few reasons.
🚀 rrobin [OP/mod] · Apr 06 at 07:33:
Hi Moonlight. Glad you enjoyed it. Build/Packaging systems can be tricky to reason about (not just guix) but drop us a message if you need help with something specific.
Original Post
Welcome to the Guix subspace — Hi all, I've created this subspace so we can share our experiences with Guix or help each other with our troubles. Feel free to add a comment with a quick intro. Do you use Guix as a package manager or GuixSD as your distro? Do you like it or hate? Maybe you are a reproducible build kind of person, or your just like to watch Guix bootstrap from source while heating up the house. I can kick it off: I've been using using Guix for maybe 3 years now. I use both GuixSD...