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hi, nix on macos user dropping in to deliver a PSA for the non-nixer macos users amongst you reading this article:
* you are correct to be terrified
* you are correct to think “this is a demented amount of busywork; who in their right mind would do this to themselves?”
* you should know that this is a highly atypical setup that does a staggering number of things by hand for no discernible reason
* normal people just install https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin on top of standard nix and enjoy about the same lack of janitorial work as macports/homebrew users, relative to whatever the hell this guy is doing
* please don't be scared off nix by this article
This post focused solely on the Nix package manager and Nix packages - for anyone that uses MacOS but is interesting in trying NixOS (or using it within a VM in MacOS), I definitely recommend Mitchell Hashimoto's NixOS repo: https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config
Honestly, doing that may be easier and a better option than using Nix packages in MacOS.
I imagine GP is talking about every macOS update forcibly overwriting /etc/zshrc.
They bothered writing a system capable of dropping the conflicted file in Relocated Items for us to optionally use--but they appear to be only using it for /etc/bashrc, and not /etc/zshrc. So, people who use zsh by choice or default get dumped on a bit :/
Some background in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3616
> I am not sure what is the story of having NixOS as a server, but would not suggest to have it as a main OS
This was what I thought when I was learning nix. Once I used NixOS, I realised it's not quite that difficult. -- The two big differences: 1. Roughly, you only really need to care about the NixOS config about as frequently as you'd change system files in /etc/ in other Linux distributions. 2. Some programs (e.g. minikube) will download a binary automatically, and this doesn't work well with NixOS.
I've seen tools like distrobox https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox recommended as backups on NixOS, as well as the usual Docker / VMs.
I secretly suspect some of the reason NixOS is popular is it's less trouble than nix on non-NixOS. Whereas, nix on macOS, I've sometimes mixed compilers/libraries, which leads to difficult to discern problems.
They are referring to https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....