Darwin

Updated: September 28, 2024

Install Darwin + Home Manager + Nix

This will guide to getting started.

Table of Contents

• Resources
• Nix
• Flake

Resources

• Search
• Home Manager
• Nix

Nix

The first thing we need to do is install Nix Pakage Manager from determinate systems.
It can be cleanly uninstalled and starts with flakes enabled.

# this will install nix
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install

Keep in mind that we will not be using this package manager to imperatively install Nix packages.
So we will not be using the nix-env command, it defeats the purpose of nix tbh.

# check that nix is installed
nix --version

# see where nix is installed
type nix

Flake

The second thing we need to do is create a flake and place it in a git repository. This will us to version control our changes, and allow it to be pulled to other systems.

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