Also, please consider contributing to Guix and/or GuixSD. This is only a recommendation, since Guix tries to be in the middle of "do it yourself" distributions, and a highly dependency-based distributions.

Besides, Guix empowers the users, by letting them decide if they want to get the builds/substitutes from the Guix servers, or get only the source from there and build them (which is done automatically via script, and which is also done automatically when there's no substitute in the servers), and lets the user host a Guix build/substitute server/repository; and Guix tries to separate the execution of different "tasks" on different environments (although the same packages are used across environments, the user can keep older versions of them and use these different versions of these with different tasks running at the same time).

Users are also allowed to set default versions to use for each package. This, together with some other features that just forgot about, create the ability to restore the system state/generation or even to manage the existing generations. That is, I could make a package upgrade (so setting this state as the current one), dislike the outcome, and revert to any of the existing recorded generations, and afterwards I can decide whether I want to remove that "upgraded" generation, or leave it there for later use.

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