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Nix? Are you talking about the package manager from NixOS? I didn’t know that was MacOS-friendly these days, neat! Can you link us to any good articles discussi
by MrWiffles 4y ago
Nix? Are you talking about the package manager from NixOS? I didn’t know that was MacOS-friendly these days, neat! Can you link us to any good articles discussing differences between it and Homebrew?
Also, what is/are Flakes?
- lambdaba 4y agoNix can manage Homebrew (via nix-darwin) too! home-manager works great too. Re: flakes, IMO, don't worry about them too much, Nix is complicated as it is. IME while the package selection is indeed huge it does happen the odd package is missing or temporarily broken. In that case, I just use Homebrew via nix-darwin. [edit]: okay, maybe do learn about Flakes, I've read parent's comment and got the part about helping with cross-platform stuff, plus Flakes are the future. But you might not need those features right away, people have been happily using Nix for years without them.