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0 pointskoiueo1y ago0 comments

Yeah, I eventually realized that nix-darwin is only good for managing the list of homebrew casks.

home-manager works better than I'd expect. At least I don't have to spend time configuring vim, git and shell prompt.

But overall, Nix on MacOS feels like a hack, behaves like a hack... because it's essentially a hack...

I'm waiting for the first reports of Lenovo's t14s gen 6 with Snapdragon X Elite.

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pxc1y ago

> Yeah, I eventually realized that nix-darwin is only good for managing the list of homebrew casks.

If that's really all you use it for, and you already use Home Manager, the Homebrew module for Nix-Darwin works fine in Home Manager with some small tweaks. I use that with a custom, per-user Homebrew prefix to keep Homebrew out of the way except for the task of installing casks.

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