THthroawayonthe·Nov 12, 2024
well asahi is going to bring M4 support eventually and there is https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon
also you could just Containerize All The Things on macos idk
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12 sourcesNixOS is fully supported https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/do...
In AAA Gaming on Asahi LinuxI just used this: https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/do...
I used one of their releases rather than building my own image. It’s a guide that merits careful reading, as some key steps are not specifically bulleted. Oh, and it’s not the NixOS graphical installer.
But it was dead simple, and 99% of the heavy lifting is from the Asahi team. The biggest downside is that updating the support files is a manual process, but NixOS of course makes it a breeze to rebuild into a new environment—and back out if it doesn’t work.
In Hackintosh is almost deadI doubt it will ever have native support. NixOS doesn't do native support. For what it's worth I'm running NixOS on an M2 Max MPB using https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon.
In Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixesNixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon
3 points · Open discussionThe performance isn't the issue but the stability is. Anyways this is a hardware compat and tutorial on how to install nixOS on the M series of apple computers :
https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/do...
In Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on MacResources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs
2 points · Open discussionMost hardcore Nix users/developers I have met have been suspicious for Flakes for several years, so your point rings true.
That said, it feels like they are slowly coming to terms with it and just accepting it as default. Here are two examples of maintainers eventually accepting flake support on their repos after initial hesitation [1][2].
[1] https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/pull/47
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/404
In Nix-Powered Development with OCamlI do, no issues at all with the beta Asahi kernel, you basically have to git clone https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon in /etc/nixos/, include a file from that repo in the configuration.nix and configure as you like (beta gpu driver or not, which kernel, 4k pages or not, ecc). The experience then is exactly the same as a stock NixOS installation.
In ARM64 Linux Workstationthis is incredible, congratulations to everyone involved in making this happen. there's already instructions for a NixOS install, too[1]
[1]: https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-m1/blob/main/docs/uefi-sta...
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