Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 2) — 2025 — Blog — GNU Guix
The results from the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024) are in and we're digging into them in a series of posts! Check out the first post for the details of how users initially adopt Guix, the challenges they find while adopting it and how important it is in their environment. In this part, we're going to cover how use of Guix matures, which parts are the most loved and lots of other details.
The middle section of the Survey explored how users relationship with Guix matured, which parts they used and where they struggled. Question 11 asked, Which parts of Guix have you used on top of another Linux distribution?
As a reminder a third (36%) of participants adopted Guix by using it as a package manager on top of another GNU/Linux distribution. The detailed results were:
Table 10: Hosted Guix usage by capabilityCapabilityUseStoppedNever usedPackage manager and packages (guix package)48%26%24%Dotfiles and home environment management (guix home)17%11%70%Isolated development environments (guix shell)41%18%39%Package my own software projects28%9%61%Deployment tool (guix deploy, guix pack)13%7%78%Guix System (i.e. VM on top of your distro)15%15%68%
