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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.
pont
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You started a new job, what are the first tools you install on your machine?
The first thing I "install" is pont, my config manager I wrote a while ago https://github.com/AlexAegis/pont
- Best way to manage dotfiles using just Git
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JOIN NIXOS TODAY OR BECOME INSIGNIFICANT TOMORROW!
I have a more extensive description in the readme and a link to my dotfiles repo utilizing it: https://github.com/AlexAegis/pont
What are some alternatives?
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
dotfiles - My dotfiles, utilizing 'pont', my dotmodule manager
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
issue-tracker - Fedora Silverblue issue tracker
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
stern - ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell
SwiftDefaultApps - Replacement for RCDefaultApps, written in Swift.
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
legacy_dotfiles - My dotfiles, plain and simple.
NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]
strap - 👢 Bootstrap your macOS development system.