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by asdf-asdf-asdf 2258 days ago
you can use NixOS on MacOS.

i was planning to try it out (currently i use homebrew), but with Catalina it seems things are somewhat complicated for nixos+macos.

my understanding is that NixOS wants to live in "/nix", and Catalina does not like that.

there are some solutions to this problem but they seem somewhat incomplete (you have to make an unencrypted partition for Nix etc..), though i haven't tried it so i might be wrong :)

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3212