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Nix is my favorite package manager on MacOs - Dreams of Autonomy (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by uthredii@programming.dev to c/nix@programming.dev

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Homebrew is the most popular package manager on MacOS, and for good reason. However personally, I believe that Nix is more powerful.

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[–] DetachablePianist@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I really want to like both nixOS and their nix package manager, but so far I'm not there yet. from a PM perspective, it seems like anything I tried getting from their repos was always way further behind the mac OS homebrew or Debian apt versions.

nixOS is really slick in concept, but has a steep learning curve to get it properly customized as a daily driver. The learned skills don't really translate outside the nix realm either, so I decided it was too much effort for my use case. I love this concept as a way to build reproducable servers or workstations tho, so I'll def be playing with it again.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

anything I tried getting from their repos was always way further behind the mac OS homebrew or Debian apt versions.

Nixpkgs are the most up to date of any package respiratory source

It is likely that you were using the current 'stable' channel that does not have the very latest packages. The 'unstable' channel does have the very latest packages and is what I think most people use.

nixOS is really slick in concept, but has a steep learning curve to get it properly customized as a daily driver. The learned skills don’t really translate outside the nix realm either, so I decided it was too much effort for my use case. I love this concept as a way to build reproducable servers or workstations tho, so I’ll def be playing with it again.

I totally agree, I wish it was easier to learn.

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