It does. It lets nix run your machine configuration declaratively, like nixos. Ive never done much macOS, but i'd be worried about apple making it hard in a future release--the hardware isnt open source so they could rug u. Youre also at the mercy of nix devs handling support if anything breaks.
imo best to spin up a beefy nixos vm, manage it with nixos declaratively, and get best of both worlds.
Or get a thinkpad ;)
i have a ubuntu machine, a nixos machine, a windows machine and now a macos machine lololol
this is literally just to avoid having to run brew
Ok you do not want nix-darwin. You just want to install nix for mac. Heres a good in depth post https://dev.to/synecdokey/nix-on-macos-2oj3
+1—Glad to hear I’m not the only one who thinks brew is a steaming pile.
And talk about taking an analogy too far! No, I don’t want to remember to brew pour a cask formula from a goddamn tap. And no, it doesn’t help when you fill my terminal with emoji animations.
