Guix has a very small but dedicated community, I respect the maintainers not giving nonfree software upstream support since it's hard enough maintaining the free software in the repo anyway.
I'd argue that Debian's slow release cycle is more a liability than a strength nowadays. GNOME+KDE gets a new release every 6 months or so and COSMIC will get one every year, this means that while using Debian you're missing out on a lot of features during those 2 years (Debian is still on Plasma 5.27 while upstream is on 6.2). Wayland+Pipewire+Portals (not as easy to say compared to just "Xorg" lol) is moving really quickly compared to the last decade or so.
If Debian switched to a yearly release cycle then I could see most of these problems be less of an issue but 2 years is an epoch in modern Linux time.
Guix has a very small but dedicated community, I respect the maintainers not giving nonfree software upstream support since it's hard enough maintaining the free software in the repo anyway.
I'd argue that Debian's slow release cycle is more a liability than a strength nowadays. GNOME+KDE gets a new release every 6 months or so and COSMIC will get one every year, this means that while using Debian you're missing out on a lot of features during those 2 years (Debian is still on Plasma 5.27 while upstream is on 6.2). Wayland+Pipewire+Portals (not as easy to say compared to just "Xorg" lol) is moving really quickly compared to the last decade or so.
If Debian switched to a yearly release cycle then I could see most of these problems be less of an issue but 2 years is an epoch in modern Linux time.