Mac Nix

Brief, incomplete notes from trying Nix on macOS in 2023, covering builds, shell configuration, updates and an unresolved rollback problem.

Published

No idea what’s getting updated

Build takes ages

Stuggling to get an editor that can edit .nix

Nixpkgs doesn’t have Maccy and other tools I need, so homebrew is still there

Keyboard sensitivity hack is almost worth the trouble alone

/etc/shells makes it obscenely difficult to choose the bash shell over zsh

I needed to rollback, but couldn’t figure out how to - dx