I set it up on my laptop as an experiment, and am greatly enjoying using it: it's nice to work on a modern, well thought-out distribution in its early stages, with lots of opportunities to contribute.

The ease by which you can manage and roll-out new configurations means that it's slowly spreading to other systems I manage.

It's also interesting to work on a distribution that takes the GNU project seriously: the developers default to using GNU software where possible, and are clearly striving to make a coherent operating system out of its parts. This is less an ideological position than it sounds -- there's a lot of gold buried in nearly half a century of GNU work, and I've enjoyed learning about it all, and seeing how the Guix team go about improving and modernising it.

I'm using Guix System on new Dell servers, old Sun servers, a Dell laptop, a Purism Librem laptop, an old Thinkpad --- it works just fine.

I think the fear of missing drivers when using Linux without blobs is extremely overstated. Yes, certain WiFi cards won't work without blobs, and yes, the 3D graphics situation is not great thanks to NVIDIA and AMD.

> What do you like about it versus a more typical linux or unix?

Oh, so many things... But most important for me is stateless configuration, reproducible builds, no-nonsense application bundles without all that Dockeresk cruft via "guix pack", ad-hoc environments, etc.

> 3D graphics situation is not great thanks to NVIDIA and AMD.

AMD is now one of the good guys when it comes to open source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMDGPU

Basically, since 2015, AMD has offered an official driver under an MIT license for Linux and *BSD. Personally, I'm definitely choosing AMD for my next laptop :).

Unless things have changed recently, AMD GPUs still require proprietary firmware and thus do not work on a fully free system. I bought an AMD GPU a few years ago to try it out and it didn't work.

As do Intel[1] and Nvidia[2].

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

I have been using GNU Guix for over 4 years now on a modern Dell laptop (exchanged the WIFI card to keep my freedom), two older thinkpads, home server.

Since three years our development team at work uses Guix; the reproducible offload builds are awesome. Extending the package graph with your own version of packages is very helpful. Since about a year we also use server(s) at Digital Ocean running GNU Guix.

I am mostly using GUIX package manager as a package manager on multiple foreign distros. It makes it very easy to get up to date versions of free software, when the repositories of your distro lack behind.

I've also experimented recently with using it for creating environments (actually called profiles in GUIX) for programming projects. That also works.

There is a lot more to discover for me, once I get around to it.

Just a reminder, you can also use Guix as a package manager only on top of, for example, a Debian or Arch system (I am using it currently on top of both). This works very much like Python's pip / virtualenv, and is extremely helpful if you use many different libraries and new tools when developing software, or if you want to try out new things without changing your base system, and without wanting to set up a full VM.

That isn't the purpose. It isn't for end users to run. It's to be able to have confidence that the object code in a software distribution depends only on the source code, and not on something that a clever attacker has managed to sneak in, using a variant of the Thompson "trusting trust" attack.

I think dilandau is asking if anyone is using Guix.