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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by bigyabai on Monday March 03, 2025 @08:37PM (#43249117)
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.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by notnmeyer on Monday March 03, 2025 @08:41PM (#43249154)
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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