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8 Feb 2026
@saiko:knifepoint.netKatalin 🔪 otherwise, no, can't think of anything 21:05:00
9 Feb 2026
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy EckenrodeGit appears to broken on Darwin on staging.02:56:43
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you mean this on staging-next?

https://hydra.nixos.org/build/321302343

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@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode I ran into it today rebasing my Swift branch on staging. 04:16:53
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode * I ran into it today rebasing my Swift branch on current staging. 04:17:04
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@mall0c:matrix.orgmall0c

Thinking of setting up NixOS in VM on macOS host. Is the lack of OpenGL support going to result in awful performance? Or is it tolerable?

Been itching to use Niri + Cosmic for a minute.

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@ihar.hrachyshka:matrix.orgIhar Hrachyshkai think if you want acceleration, something like krunkit / libkrun could give you that but I am not aware of ready recipes to run nixos through it.19:25:48
@g5pw:matrix.orgg5pwI would definitely wait for the next minor bump, IIRC there will be a performance/bugfix release22:12:17
10 Feb 2026
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In reply to @ihar.hrachyshka:matrix.org
i think if you want acceleration, something like krunkit / libkrun could give you that but I am not aware of ready recipes to run nixos through it.
hmm - this is something new. Seems to use apple hypervisor api. But not sure how much GPU support it provides. Thanks, will look into it
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@ihar.hrachyshka:matrix.orgIhar Hrachyshkai think its primary target is llm acceleration via vulkan apis, not sure about the rest19:54:36
11 Feb 2026
@axman6:matrix.orgAxman6 Does anyone know why, when using nix-darwin and home-manager zsh no longer knows anything about system man pages? Things like kqueue aren't found, nor any other pages like man 2 read 01:41:12
@axman6:matrix.orgAxman6I don't appear to have MANPATH set in my login shell at all, but man works for packages from Nix01:41:46
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@bestlem:matrix.orgbestlem I think home-manager installs its own man see what which man returns
/usr/bin/man kqueue works
Unfortunately I don't know what needs configuring to change this.
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@bestlem:matrix.orgbestlemI think the kqueue manpage is here /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/share/man/man2/kqueue.2 So the macOS sdk needs to be added to MANPATH or the configuration11:27:33
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