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What's the best bitcoin wallet client for linux? Armory and electrum flat out do not work.
Xavier King
Linux kernel kernels Linux kernels.
Gavin Peterson
Absolutely, in fact I think that should be one of its major strong points considering you can make 1 config file and "deploy" it across tons of different systems to create identical environments rapidly. The Guix package manager literally lets you produce docker images from any of its packages (not to mention it can also produce docker-like sandboxed "containers" on its own without docker) That's all perfect for DevOps.
There's also the fact that the package mangers operations are "atomic", and you can rollback to previous states.
However, implied by your question is also the question of whether or not it's "ready" yet. I think that's a bit more tricky and I'd have to give it a "it depends" answer. It depends on how well you think you can learn Guix, because in a "serious development environment" you don't want to run into a wall, and you may have a use case that nobody has had yet (or nobody has documented yet). And so you'd have to be a bit clever, dig through some documentation, and figure it out.
But as it ages more (and in particular, as more people use it in serious development environments, reporting issues, documenting their experiences) I see it becoming a very first rate system for production environments.
