Given the direction that the Nix project is going, I suspect that many of you Nix users reading along here are currently considering alternatives, and among them Guix.
Personally I've only been using Nix for a few weeks, so my investment is not that big, but how about you? For a technical comparison, you could start with these two articles. If you're on IRC, I'd also suggest to join #guix just in case or look at the other communication options they endorse on their website.
What gives me the most thoughts is the availability of recent-ish software on Guix; but given Guix's FSF-level copyleft culture there's at least the certainty that whatever efforts I might put in to build and package things myself would have the lowest-possible likelihood of suffering corporate/fashtech capture. And we may be picking up momentum to collectively alleviate those problems.
i have tried using guix but the speed of the initial
guix pulljust killed me, so i ran back to nixos(which i have been using for like 1.5 maybe even 2 years at this point) and then to gentoo(which i am currently on)was this on a old machine or s slow vm? it's not half as bad on more beefy machines but yeah, it can discourage first users