When comparing GuixSD vs PureOS, the Slant community recommends PureOS for most people. In the question“What is the best OS that is mainly under a GNU license?” PureOS is ranked 2nd while GuixSD is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose PureOS is:
PureBrowser is a modified version of Firefox that comes with security focused plugins. There is also a copy of TOR installed in the OS by default.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Good for learning
For sure not the best one to be your main distro, but very good for learning as you can contribute to make this project to improve faster and then someday we will see the first stable release of this distro.
Pro Very modern concept distro
It has some interesting characteristics for the more technical users that could become a good contribution to the general GNU+Linux ecosystem.
Pro PureBrowser and TOR
PureBrowser is a modified version of Firefox that comes with security focused plugins. There is also a copy of TOR installed in the OS by default.
Pro You can download and install it, without the need to purchase their laptop
PureOS is available from their site for free for anyone to use, no need to purchase any of their laptops in order to check out the OS which is a tweaked build of the Trisquel distro.
Pro Default install on a free, open source laptop
PureOS is the default OS installed on the Purism Librem laptops.
Cons
Con Loads to learn
New technologies demand new learning...
Con No mobile installation
You cant install pure os on a android phone.
Con Slower updates
Updates are slower than an unmodified Debian.