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> According to Debian's popularity contest (popcon) statistics, there are not quite 230 systems with Guix installed.
But most people using Debian turn popcon off. I don't at all doubt that Guix is not used by most people, but I'm quite certain the number of users is well above 230.
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But most people using Debian turn popcon off. I don't at all doubt that Guix is not used by most people, but I'm quite certain the number of users is well above 230.
The locales package has over 265k installs in the same recent report that lists 231 copies of guix. That’s less than 0.09% or so.
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The locales package has over 265k installs in the same recent report that lists 231 copies of guix. That’s less than 0.09% or so.
By the same virtue, https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox only lists 5749 installs of firefox. I'd take it with a grain of salt.
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The locales package has over 265k installs in the same recent report that lists 231 copies of guix. That’s less than 0.09% or so.
By the same virtue, https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox only lists 5749 installs of firefox. I'd take it with a grain of salt.
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The locales package has over 265k installs in the same recent report that lists 231 copies of guix. That’s less than 0.09% or so.
By the same virtue, https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox only lists 5749 installs of firefox. I'd take it with a grain of salt.
> According to Debian's popularity contest (popcon) statistics, there are not quite 230 systems with Guix installed.
But most people using Debian turn popcon off. I don't at all doubt that Guix is not used by most people, but I'm quite certain the number of users is well above 230.
> For example, he has had to maintain various Guile dependencies, and deal with the fact that Guix uses ""fairly old"" GCC versions whereas Debian usually ships the latest GCC version available for a given release. It's odd that guix is both rolling release but also uses older GCC versions; usually I'd expect those from very different cultures.
It seems that it doesn't build with releases of GCC from April 2025 onward, at least with default settings, because it doesn't build with the C23/C++23 standards. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1096790 Maybe such changes are more substantial than the typical differences between GCC releases?
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Just using Guix requires a pretty substantial amount of administrative work. I'd imagine maintaining it is even more intense and that's why they're running into issues like this. You have to be pretty slow to be outrun by Debian of all distros.
It's not the slowness of releases, it's the fact they don't release any stable version with just security fixes. They only make new cumulative releases. Debian's model is to fix a version for their release and do security patches on that, not to push out the latest version.
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But most people using Debian turn popcon off. I don't at all doubt that Guix is not used by most people, but I'm quite certain the number of users is well above 230.
Can't really complain if their usage stats aren't taken into account then, I'd say?
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But most people using Debian turn popcon off. I don't at all doubt that Guix is not used by most people, but I'm quite certain the number of users is well above 230.
Can't really complain if their usage stats aren't taken into account then, I'd say?