TLDR; I’ve switched from ArchLinux to MacOS and it’s been smoother than I initially thought. Context I’ve been using Linux for more than 20 years and used a bunch of distributions in the past: Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo (yay, building those packages from sources with flags…), and last but not least ArchLinux (stock + derivates like Manjaro and EndeavourOS). I recently had the opportunity, both personally and professionally, to switch to MacOS.

TLDR; How to setup MacOS with Nix. Context Being a long time Linux user, I wanted to know if I can reproduce my development environment on a brand new ARM 64 MacOS machine. Package Manager MacOS doesn’t have a builtin package manager, which is quite confusing when coming from the Linux world. I already tried MacPorts and Homebrew in the past but was not convinced by them. Nix This time, I wanted to try something new, namely Nix, which I already use in other projects to setup my development environment (via nix-shell).