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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Scanner: scn0 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=elephly.net header.s=zoho header.b=APnyvZZ0; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.21 X-TUID: V8RT5XC1yiuy Taylan Kammer writes: > TL;DR: sell Guix (over Nix) to someone who doesn't care about GNU or > Scheme? I=E2=80=99ve previously compared Guix and Nix for the crowd at Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D23529932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D19809366 It=E2=80=99s not much of a sales pitch, but a comparison to allow people to distinguish the two projects and to dispell the terribly mistaken notion of Guix as merely a =E2=80=9CGNU fork of Nix=E2=80=9D. --=20 Ricardo