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0 pointsdbalatero11mo ago0 comments

Nix completely broke on my security locked down work laptop, so I had to revert to symlinks, bash, and brew.

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OJFord11mo ago· 2 in thread

Nix-Darwin completely broke on my not at all locked down fresh out of the box from Apple work Mac, refusing to uninstall itself even, so I had to wipe and reinstall macOS. (It was a new machine, so it wasn't a huge deal, but I'd really wanted it to work.)

nocab11mo ago

for future reference you should really consider installing it with the determinate nix installer [0] instead. it's multi-platform and among other things creates an install receipt so that changes can be painlessly reverted.

[0] https://determinate.systems/nix-installer/

OJFord11mo ago

Fairly sure that is what I used, though I remember being confused about whether Determinate Systems was the legit way, or super opinionated not necessarily most supported way, which was going to be least friction/widest adoption, etc.

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