@rowb1t I used NixOS and then Guix for like, idk two years maybe. my stance on them is that they are good solutions to problems with using Linux, but I've opted to instead not use an OS that is so utterly devoid of any coherent design that people had to invent yet another layer of complexity on top of the pile of garbage Linux already is. with Guix specifically I was annoyed with how it didn't feel lispy at all to me, like you can't interact with your system primarily from a REPL or anything like that (though that's ofc not one of its goals). It's ultimately just a scripting language for an OS that is entirely foreign to a lisp way of doing things, which is reflected in how it felt to use Guix. ironically it also got in the way of me doing CL development since certain things wouldn't work right and were annoying to use without packaging everything in Guix, which then made the CL development experience considerably less dynamic since I could no longer easily just ql:quickload something into my REPL

but then again I'm kind of an uncompromising idealist