Has anyone recently set up Nix on a new ARM Mac, especially after migrating from Homebrew? How did it go? Better yet, do you have a write-up?
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Also, did you use nix-darwin?
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Today's progress: installed Nix and Home Manager, a few CLI packages (ripgrep, fzf, etc.), and configured aliases and abbreviations for fish.
Problems: can't build alacritty for aarch64-darwin, so need to figure out how overlays work. No emotional capacity for flakes.
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Oh also, multi-user installation is confusing me. I didn't do anything special with daemons or build users and it seems to be working fine (except for periodic warnings about not including --add-root)?
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I use multi-user/--daemon mode + nix-darwin + home-manager + flakes on my M1 mac. Sadly I didn't really think to put together a guide, but yeah it seems to be working nicely now, and am pretty happy, but yeah I do wish it was easier to get started.