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   Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 15:09:18 JST Daniel Lakeland

   Ok, #linux people. I've been using Debian since like 1995 or something, usually Testing. I know a lot about it, I can usually fix anything I need to fix, and it works fine for me. But the declarative system of NixOS looks pretty sweet. Any Debian enthusiasts who've switched to or started mixing in NixOS to their setups? What are advantages and disadvantages etc that you've found?

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 15:09:17 JST Janneke

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     @dlakelan sort of, I mostly used unstable for years with a short flirt with Ubuntu in between and switched to GNU #Guix nine years ago. Converted all my machines and never looked back.

     Guix is #Nix's sister, takes a stronger stance on freedom and uses the general purpose Guile Scheme language for everything...both were a big plus for me but I recognize that's personal and depends on your needs and preferences. Nix works OOTB on more machines and provides much more softwares.

     Initially I used guix as a package manager on Debian and switched to Guix System after a couple of months after I had moved all my development into the Guix realm.

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 15:19:11 JST Janneke

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     • Vagrant Cascadian

     @dlakelan to get a Debian developer's perspective on Guix (most pretty much holds for Nix too), you may want to have a look at this talk by @vagrantc
     <https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/99-my-crush-on-gnu-guix/>

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     Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 15:43:09 JST Daniel Lakeland

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     • Janneke

     @janneke
     🥰 thanks. I kinda want to love GUIX but also I kinda want to use declarative systems to make self hosting easier like freeipa, photoprism, nextcloud, whatnot. And I'm not seeing those in GUIX ?
     @vagrantc

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 15:43:09 JST Janneke

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     • Vagrant Cascadian

     @dlakelan @vagrantc yeah I guess that nix is probably the obvious choice for those. As Guix builds everything from source, anything JavaScript/node-like is still not in reach for Guix, as you can imagine.