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by yusefnapora
1175 days ago
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Not the person you're asking, but I use nix on my MacBook and ditched brew after a few weeks. The main draw for me was that I was already using home-manager on NixOS, and being able to share the same config on macOS was pretty compelling. I had to sprinkle a couple conditionals in the home-manager config to account for things that are linux-only, but it was pretty painless. Here's an example of using `pkgs.stdenv.isLinux` to conditionally install stuff (there's also an `isDarwin`, if you prefer): https://github.com/yusefnapora/nixos-system-flake/blob/660dd... For my own use case, I install a few things "globally" in my home-manager config (neovim, vscode, fish shell, etc.). Then each of my projects gets its own flake with a devShell, and I use nix-direnv to bring things into the PATH when I cd into the project directory. I also use `nix shell` a fair bit if I just want to run something in a one-off shell session. You can also use nix profiles if you're looking for a more brew-like experience, but I never really mess with those. I figure if I want something to be persistently installed, it's better to just stuff it into my home-manager config so it will be there on all my machines. On the whole, I much prefer nix to brew. I'd still recommend brew to people that don't want to bother with learning nix, but if you're already running NixOS I'd say go for it. |
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