Are you a #guix shell user - how do you use it? What's the most common thing you do? Or your favourite trick?
I use it as a #container or light-weight #linux chroot a lot. Particularly, for testing new #perl or #python packages. Using it for #dev to create a dev environment is also really useful.
What about you ...
@guix I use it for two reasons:
1. To try out software, without worrying about cleaning up afterwards. Yesterday I was looking for a Makefile linter, #guix shell enabled me to quickly try out both checkmake and mbake.
2. To automatically setup an environment with direnv and a manifest.scm file. For my plain text accounting I need bc, gnumeric, hledger, miller and xlsx2csv. I do not need these packages anywhere else, but when I step into my accounting directory, guix shell makes them available.
