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It's quite reasonable to switch to Guix, as it too is "a functional distro".
I recently tried NixOS and was considering Guix as well, however what made me decide on NixOS was the fact that it doesn't restrict you to free packages by the distro default choice.
Does Guix have an equivalent to flakes or does it even need one? I never looked closer into the design.