mas
nix-darwin
mas | nix-darwin | |
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19 | 39 | |
10,603 | 2,265 | |
0.6% | - | |
6.1 | 8.7 | |
about 1 month ago | 8 days ago | |
Swift | Nix | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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mas
- macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported
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What are your New Build essentials?
I have a script that installs Homebrew and App Store CLI. Then it automatically installs most of the apps I need. I use homebrew to create an up to date list for this script.
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The new Obsidian icon
More info on Mac App Store integration: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas
- mas: a command line interface for the Mac App Store
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Boomer Wants to Learn Mac
Command Line Tools: iTerm 2 alternative to the default Terminal homebrew mas homebrew bundle
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How to easily migrate Homebrew formulas to another MacBook?
I mainly use the Homebrew to manage almost every app or program, even apps on the App Store using mas. It becomes a bit of a pain when I set up a new MacBook because it takes time for me to look for the list of the apps and programs on my main MacBook and install one them by one on my new MacBook.
- Issues with installing applications on Macos
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Questions about MacOS
Most of my workflow could replicated under Mac. For the "horrible" window management I use amethyst (auto tiling) and Magnet (windows like) for search I use raycast and for software management I do use the cli with homebrew, mas and ports. The cool thing with homebrew cask you can install all programms from the web that aren't in the App Store and the App Store apps will be updated via mas. You can even update your mac with the terminal so everything like in linux.
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Avoiding the AppStore
I found this. https://github.com/mas-cli/mas
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Similar to for Veeam for Apple OS X?
Instead, perhaps consider file based backups, and reloading apps. For example, you can have a shell script that can fetch Homebrew, from there, fetch most non-App Store apps with brew install commands, and for App Store apps, use mas for those.
nix-darwin
- Nix-Darwin: Nix modules for Darwin
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My MacBook setup (the 2024 version)
Just a shout out to nix-darwin[1]. It is nix, so initial setup is a bit involved. But then it truly makes it easy to configure everything in one place including mac defaults, homebrew apps declaratively and mas apps etc.
There is a sample config in nix-darwin repo[2].
[1] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin
[2] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/modules/examp...
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macOS Sonoma Broke Grep
https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/tree/master/modules
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What is the difference between NixOS and any other distro running the nix package manager?
nix-darwin does similar thing for MacOS
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How to install a library globally using nix-env (or home manager) on macos?
You can use https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin
- Nix-Darwin
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Issues with installing applications on Macos
There are many threads around where you can learn more about this (and why it's complicated...), but https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/1341 and https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/issues/139 seem like two of the most comprehensive.
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Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
Nix is pretty usable for both desktops and headless servers. Personally, I even use it on macOS without much trouble.
My system looks like any other install of Ventura, but all of my configuration, ranging from the terminal and VS Code to macOS-specific system preferences and Safari, is done declaratively in Nix [1]. The overwhelming majority of my installed software also comes from Nix packages, with some exceptions for stuff that is not packaged yet (e.g., I have Podman Desktop, the macOS ZFS port, Lulu, yubikey-manager-qt installed through Homebrew -- fortunately nix-darwin [2] also just lets me have an set of brews/casks in my config).
It was been a bit of a nightmare at first since the error messages are kind of horrific, and there can be a lack of good examples/docs on flakes. But I think the weekend worth of time I invested was worth it since I no longer need to rely on hacky shellscripts or remember to manually configure anything.
[1]: <https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager>
[2]: <https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin>
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Beginner Question: Managing the global environment using Nix
Take a look at nix-darwin, this is what I use. It allows you to configure your system similar to NixOS including globally installed programs.
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How to install Chrome on MacOS without homebrew?
This — I still use mas and brew —-cask through the nix-darwin module, though. It’s not exactly reproducible, but it’s at least closer to reproducible and declarative.
What are some alternatives?
eqMac - macOS System-wide Audio Equalizer & Volume Mixer 🎧
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
phpmon - Lightweight, native Mac menu bar app that helps you manage multiple PHP installations, locate config files and more. Also interacts with Laravel Valet.
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
linearmouse - The mouse and trackpad utility for Mac.
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
homebrew-bundle - 📦 Bundler for non-Ruby dependencies from Homebrew, Homebrew Cask and the Mac App Store.
NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]