> The downside is, of course, that more and more of the linux userland depends on systemd. That is bound to become a problem sooner or later.
This is the main problem. Systemd has the most eyes, and the most active development, and I just don't want to spend innovation tokens on that as well.
> My biggest gripe is that I would like to have a simpler way to install it onto my computer. I need nonguix to even boot on one of my computers, but I really really hate doing that because doing a system install from nonguix has a tendency to break things for me later on.
That's a huge issue. Which also reminds me, this kind of requirement is dead in the water for the GPU era, at least until there are sufficiently F/OSS high quality drivers (which may be never).
Maybe the answer here is to just use only guix the package manager