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NixOS VM on Mac Setup

Mitchell Hashimoto

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Mitchell Hashimoto demonstrates his development environment setup running a NixOS virtual machine on macOS using a custom configuration.

github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config

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What people say. Highly recommended by engineers as a blueprint for running a reproducible Linux development environment on Apple Silicon Macs.

indiv0on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?”

Just run Linux in a VM! It's my preferred workflow nowadays. See: link link to this video Only real limitations are lack of ML because no server/desktop-grade GPU and some missing ARM-based docker containers. But the latter is slowly being resolved and the former isn't gonna happen on a laptop anyways.
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alekunon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu”

I got interested in NixOS after watching link and link to this video I use fedora since long time and so far is quite stable without any non-sense
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xisthesqrtof9on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Impressions from a first-time Mac user”

…ystem Integrity Protection) if you want to use its full potential. Instead you can run NixOS and choose your favourite window/tiling manager (i3). Package manager: I still run Nix but I am not that happy with it. Either I need to spend some more time or look for an alternative. One of the problems is the ability to easily pin older versions. 0 - link to this video 1 - link…
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bsnnkvon Hacker News • Mentions

On “LXD containers on macOS at near-native speeds”

My general setup mirrors this1 pretty closely, though of course on Windows I can just use WSL2. 1: link to this video
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xyston Hacker News • Mentions

On “My 2024 Setup”

Personally been working on replacing “brew” with “nix” for package management. Eventually using VMs spun up with qemu to emulate nixOS on my Mac for primary dev environment. Similar to hashicorp founder setup found here (except hoping to not use “parallels or vm ware fusion”: link to this video
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