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Getting my hands on a 3dfx Voodoo3 felt like such a dream.

I’ve wrapped nix-darwin, home-manager etc in a Nix configuration for macOS, with a starter template and simple installer. I’ve been running it for a couple years, you can use it to…

I’ve been using Nix on Mac for a couple years now and haven’t seen this behavior. Just works. Maybe mixing sudo / user permissions during initial installation broke it. Nix is pret…

Not on macOS, but if you want run NixOS in a VM or on bare metal you can use nix-impermanence. Recreates your system/state from scratch on each reboot. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Impe…

I’ve beeen using Nix on macOS for years now, and I don’t imagine ever going back. Declarative software management is the future. So easy to keep my dev environment up-to-date and q…

Shameless plug: I maintain a Nix for MacOS configuration starter that has a step by step guide on getting started (725+ stars). https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config

A lot of opinions on Nix here, but I manage a declarative configuration on my Mac that I now couldn’t live without. I have step by step instructions if you want to try it yourself.…

I would argue the benefit is also it’s declarative, done forever, and your machine becomes relatively bulletproof. Dev environment issues are a thing of the past, once you’ve defin…

I’ve been using Nix directly on MacOS with minimal issues for a few years now. Works great. I hate using docker on Mac and have since replaced it with flakes and devenv. My configu…

Here's my flake that does it: https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config/blob/main/flake....

1. In the beginning, it's very slow. But just iterate and make your project better and better. 2. Use your README to grab the attention of the user. I have a list of features, vide…

The project uses this overlay: https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay What that means is if something is broken in Emacs, the community will fix it, and all I need to do is…

Same. I initially started with Guix, because I'm a Lisp hacker at heart, but once I learned about nix-darwin I jumped ship and there was no going back ;) Keeping my NixOS machine o…

Although Guix reads better than Nix (after all, it's Lisp), I found the support and resources available for learning severely lacking. Plus, you have to jump through hoops to insta…

Feel free to open an issue if you have any questions! I'll be happy to help.

I tried to make Nix as easy to adopt as possible by creating Nix commands and a step by step guide (600+ stars): https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config I love Nix. I use it ev…

Family. Video games. Touching grass. Running. Accepting that I only have 4-6 hours of good programming in me a day.

Hey, I have a pretty extensive Emacs configuration [1] on my Macbook using Nix, nix-darwin, and the Nix community Emacs overlay. It's been stable across multiple OS updates, and if…

Nix has a great community of folks passionate enough to write free books ;) I've spent over a year making my personal Nix config work well for others: https://github.com/dustinlyon…

Haha wow, I played a Ferengi as well! Who knows, we may have crossed paths.

Oh wow, this is so great. Thank you for this. I haven't read this in 25+ years. The line editor experience of building a stack and calling a function, I have not really found again…

13 year old me learned to write code on FurryMUCK. No idea at the time what a Furry was, or why strangers in game were trying to "yiff" me. It was incredible though; I was big into…

Here's my MacOS Nix environment that also works on NixOS: https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config