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These two posts are really enlightening:
How I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop In 2021 With Amd Cpugpu And Gnu Guix
I Love Arch But Gnu Guix Is My New Distro
From the last, there is a non guix project including packages for guix, which are not officially supported given hey are not free software. I recommend taking a look at the last post at least, since it comes from someone who used Arch, and made the move to Guix, not just opinions from people like me, who haven't ever used Guix.
That said, Guix is in my TODO list. The thing is that I want to learn a bit more than minimal Guile, so I can write packages myself (there are always missing packages, even on Arch/Artix + AUR, I always have the need to whether tweak something at some point, or create a package still not in there), and also deal with my own services to run with shepherd. So I don't want to blindly try things out...
It shares with Nix the reproducible build of everything, but the language it uses is Guile, which has some history. Nix has its own language. To me that's a plus on Guix. But the most important part, is that the official repos are all for free software, and then on the non guix project one can look for non free software pieces, which to me this is also a plus. I guest most might differ.
But again, if you want to try it, even if it's just because of curiosity, why not doing it so? I hope those prior posts from someone who migrated there might be helpful.
Yes, that's a great review! Having one language for everything also sounds pretty great. A hard line on nonfree software is pretty tough, but I'm glad to hear you can "downgrade" back to the Linux kernel if you need to deal with a GPU or something.