Nix config

Nix for MacBook Air

Installation

1. Install Command Line Tools

   xcode-select --install

2. Install Nix ¹

   curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://artifacts.nixos.org/experimental-installer | \
     sh -s -- install

3. Clone the repository into ~/nix

   git clone https://gitlab.com/paste/nix.git ~/nix

4. Install nix-darwin ²

   nix run nix-darwin/master#darwin-rebuild -- switch --flake ~/nix

Fish Aliases

Name	Definition
nu	nix flake update --commit-lock-file --flake ~/nix
nr	sudo darwin-rebuild switch --flake ~/nix
lg	lazygit
hx	helix

Footnotes

1. When installing make sure you give your terminal full disk access. ↩

2. Since darwin-rebuild isn't installed yet, we use nix run to call darwin-rebuild from nixpkgs. ↩