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This couldn't have come at a more opportune time. My 11th gen Framework just gave up the magic smoke last night, which was a frightening experience. The Framew

This couldn't have come at a more opportune time. My 11th gen Framework just gave up the magic smoke last night, which was a frightening experience. The Framework has given me a bewildering litany of issues over the years, and I now just want something solid, light, and reasonable battery life, so just I threw down for an M4 Air today. Having used Linux exclusively for 25 years and an unaBashed CLI junkie, I'm a bit nervous about workflow friction. How does experience with nixos-darwin compare against just VMing on top of MacOS? Also, is there any reason for mucking about with Apple's bootloader etc?

McAlpine5892 1y ago
> How does experience with nixos-darwin compare against just VMing on top of MacOS? Kinda depends what you want. Both work. With Nix Darwin you’ll sometimes run into packages that aren’t compatible with your system. It’s not an ND problem really - some software was just never built for Mac. Running a VM works great too. I’m a big fan of Orbstack as it’s fairly transparent with the system. It’s nice to hop inside a real Linux box but feel like you’re working ON the actual system. You’ll take a battery hit compared to on-metal as macOS puts VMs on P-cores, but it’s not that bad.