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need help with Guix
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You can see my post on the situation: https://hexbear.net/post/6283243
TL;DR I don't think you should just switch off of NixOS and give the fash what they want. It is all free software and that means no one has complete and utter ownership of it (nixpkgs has always been a fiercely independent entity who started this whole conversation to begin with).
Otherwise, a lot of the concepts you've learned from Nix (derivations, module system orchestration, etc) can apply to Guix as well and I would argue that Guix is a superior system on a technical level but adoption is still in its infancy and given the smaller community and no infinite S3 compute paid by AWS, updates are slower to roll out.
There is a lot of documentation, just that Guix is very much a rapidly developing project (and a rolling release). I recommend cloning the Guix repository (which is a monorepo with everything you need) and reading the source code from there.