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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020) by MuffinFlavored on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:01PM (#27828721)
> We don’t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon.

https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-...

Interesting.

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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020) by takeda on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:02AM (#27830467)
For what is worth, NixOS seem to also come in aarch64 flavor.
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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020) by suction on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:22AM (#27831159)
Do with Docker available for ARM architecture, that means it will work with no emulation layer needed. Or am I missing something?
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Re:macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020) by heavyset_go on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:53PM (#27838885)
Linux still needs to run in VMs to use Docker on a Mac.
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