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Lots of respect for the asahi project. Soon you can run what is subjectively the best operating system on the objectively best built laptops.

mateuszf 3y ago
Yes, as soon as NixOS will have native support - I will be buying an apple laptop. The Asahi people are doing a fantastic job.
- rowanG077 3y ago
  I doubt it will ever have native support. NixOS doesn't do native support. For what it's worth I'm running NixOS on an M2 Max MPB using https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon.
  - heywoodlh 3y ago
    Plus one on this repo! It’s a solid experience, I run NixOS on my M2 Macbook Air.
_zoltan_ 3y ago
you already have the best operating system on it - the one it came with.
- alphanullmeric 3y ago
  Until you want to tile 3 windows on the same workspace, which Apple couldn’t fathom someone doing. Meanwhile gnome looks astronomically better with a bit of theming and has nicer animations and window control and resizing behaviour. Must be embarrassing to be even less intuitive than Linux.
  - herrkanin 3y ago
    Why are you comparing default behavior of macOS with Linux after “a bit of theming”. You can easily install a tiling window manager on macOS if that’s your thing.
    - alphanullmeric 3y ago
      I don’t mean a window manager, I mean just snapping 3 windows together is impossible on macOS. Theming doesn’t change that.
      - bs7280 3y ago
        Check out Yabai WM if you still have a macOS laptop
      - wpm 3y ago
        Rectangle. Free. Customizable to your hearts content.
    - KingLancelot 3y ago
      [dead]
    - thekombustor 3y ago
      Installing a tiling WM on macOS (in this case, Yabai) requires disabling system integrity protection. I tried Yabai for a while without disabling SIP (since I can't on my work machine) and it just did not work well. Not the fault of Yabai I'm sure, but there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly.
      - kalleboo 3y ago
        Does Linux have System Integrity Protection?
      - heywoodlh 3y ago
        I use Yabai on my Macs without SIP enabled. Here’s a list of the features that absolutely require SIP to be disabled: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863 https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863 But you don’t need to disable SIP just for tiling. I find it works extremely well. > there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly This is pretty much true of basically every tiling window manager on Linux, too. For me, using Nix-Darwin for MacOS and NixOS has drastically simplified my tiling window manager setup after initially doing the work to figure out my ideal config.
- viraptor 3y ago
  My open-and-acknowledged but not fixed Apple feedback items for very basic issues would disagree with that. (Apple 1st party software crashing on startup, settings search just not working at all, smartcard auth randomly failing, ...)

mateuszf 3y ago

Yes, as soon as NixOS will have native support - I will be buying an apple laptop. The Asahi people are doing a fantastic job.

rowanG077 3y ago
I doubt it will ever have native support. NixOS doesn't do native support. For what it's worth I'm running NixOS on an M2 Max MPB using https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon.
- heywoodlh 3y ago
  Plus one on this repo! It’s a solid experience, I run NixOS on my M2 Macbook Air.

_zoltan_ 3y ago

you already have the best operating system on it - the one it came with.

alphanullmeric 3y ago
Until you want to tile 3 windows on the same workspace, which Apple couldn’t fathom someone doing. Meanwhile gnome looks astronomically better with a bit of theming and has nicer animations and window control and resizing behaviour. Must be embarrassing to be even less intuitive than Linux.
- herrkanin 3y ago
  Why are you comparing default behavior of macOS with Linux after “a bit of theming”. You can easily install a tiling window manager on macOS if that’s your thing.
  - alphanullmeric 3y ago
    I don’t mean a window manager, I mean just snapping 3 windows together is impossible on macOS. Theming doesn’t change that.
    - bs7280 3y ago
      Check out Yabai WM if you still have a macOS laptop
    - wpm 3y ago
      Rectangle. Free. Customizable to your hearts content.
  - KingLancelot 3y ago
    [dead]
  - thekombustor 3y ago
    Installing a tiling WM on macOS (in this case, Yabai) requires disabling system integrity protection. I tried Yabai for a while without disabling SIP (since I can't on my work machine) and it just did not work well. Not the fault of Yabai I'm sure, but there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly.
    - kalleboo 3y ago
      Does Linux have System Integrity Protection?
    - heywoodlh 3y ago
      I use Yabai on my Macs without SIP enabled. Here’s a list of the features that absolutely require SIP to be disabled: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863 https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863 But you don’t need to disable SIP just for tiling. I find it works extremely well. > there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly This is pretty much true of basically every tiling window manager on Linux, too. For me, using Nix-Darwin for MacOS and NixOS has drastically simplified my tiling window manager setup after initially doing the work to figure out my ideal config.
viraptor 3y ago
My open-and-acknowledged but not fixed Apple feedback items for very basic issues would disagree with that. (Apple 1st party software crashing on startup, settings search just not working at all, smartcard auth randomly failing, ...)