8 engineers on Hacker News describe using GNU Guix first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“it's been super easy for me and it's been years of running Guix with little to no issue”
endorse · personal · spit2wind · 2025-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the two years of running Guix as my main system, the only time I've thought something was slow was in building Chromium from source”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · spit2wind · 2023-08-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I installed Guix the other day as a potential new server installation... So far I think it's brilliant.”
endorse · personal · globular-toast · 2020-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One of the deployments with 250 cluster nodes and uncounted GNU+Linux workstations is managed by me. I'd say it is very much usable and in fact used in production.”
endorse · production · rekado · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I played around with it a bit when the project was young, but it was barely usable back then.”
neutral · personal · imiric · 2024-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did one better and put Guix 1.0 in production. It was gone within two weeks of me leaving”
neutral · production · konjin · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've less experience with Guix, but in Nix you can just run a bash script”
neutral · personal · chriswarbo · 2018-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The subset of Scheme that we use in Guix is mostly functional.”
neutral · personal · rekado · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?