> GuixSD and NixOS do not have that issue
True, GuixSD instead gets stuck for two years with broken and old packages that nobody will fix out of fear of triggering too many rebuilds, the lack of maintainers on Guix gives far more work than Arch.
I've daily driven Guix for six months and I got used to trying to install a package that turned out to segfault at startup or it was too old or built with missing features, this was exceptionally annoying with ffmpeg which lacked libsvtav1, something I use regularly.
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