Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions
by hamandcheese on Friday July 18, 2025 @04:48PM
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The main thing holding me back from trying guix is that, as far as I know, there is no support for macOS.
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Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions
by umanwizard on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:29PM
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Correct, Guix is Linux and Hurd only.
Are people using Hurd still ?
Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions
by umanwizard on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:19AM
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Was anyone ever using it? I assume some nonzero number of hobbyists or true believers still are, but AFAIK those are the only ones who ever were.
At one point arch-hurd had some active members using it enough to update packages
It's still pretty early, but there's a "macOS Subsystem for Guix" project:
Re:Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions
by hamandcheese on Sunday July 20, 2025 @12:41PM
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If I understand correctly, that seems to virtualize a Linux system to work, which makes it quite different from nix on macOS.
Right, this is a limited, "Windows Subsystem for Linux"-inspired approach meant to get people on macOS a foot in the door to using Guix (System.) It is at least possible though to use GUI applications from the Guix System VM via XQuartz.