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One big diffrence between NixOS and Guix not mentioned is NixOS(the operating system only, the package manager is agnostic) is directly tied to systemD. Nothing against systemD but if your also interested in crafting/learning everything about your system your have more freedom with Guix and the NonGuix repo (nonguix is like an unofficial AUR for guix)
True~ish. FWIW, NixOS without systemd does exist, though.
Thanks for sharing that project I had no idea it existed and it looks super cool! Although it isn't a maintained distro/real alternative as said by the creator themselves in the talk