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You've encouraged me to look a bit deeper, and thank you for the clarification. It slipped my mind that there could be use cases using Guix without the OS.
Did some additional reading. The docs look pleasant. I once gave NixOS a go some years ago and it was a lot of work to get it all configured: which again only reveals how fragile the systems we use are. The syntax of Nix was confusing at times, or not all that expressive. I wasn't patient enough and the documentation was rather lacking, so I reverted back to Fedora. The fact is that I couldn't even create the computer I type on today from scratch...
Some use cases that interests me are lang version management and deployment[0]. I'm currently using asdf[1] for version management, but have no solution for reproducible deployments. To be fair I haven't deployed complex systems a whole lot, but it'd be nice to Do It Right. Having confidence in production would be nice, is all. Most people get that confidence with Docker I suppose.
One thing I'm curious about is your opinion on Nix vs Guix.
[0] https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/-/blob/master/ELIXIR.org
[1] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf