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		bigyabai 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's Software Quality Crisis NixOS, for me. I deal with a lot of wild development environments, so flakes + direnv has probably saved me hundreds of hours and a few system reinstalls. Nix is also availible for Mac, but I'll warn you that it may ruin Macports and brew for you forever.

notnmeyer 4 months ago [–]

can confirm. nix + home-manager has been the configuration and dotfiles solution i’d been searching for.

it’s not flawless, but its strengths outweigh the weaknesses.

i still need homebrew for casks, but that’s fine.

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