| 8 Mar 2026 |
 K900 | FWIW if you don't want to go the nix-ld route, all you should need is https://github.com/K900/vscode-remote-workaround/blob/main/vscode.nix | 16:07:16 |
 emily | there's a few things that can cause spurious or duplicate warnings unfortunately, I did my best to mitigate them but it's not fully avoidable. hope has just been to assess how often they happen and how annoying they are to see if this approach will work. so far few complaints, surprisingly | 16:07:20 |
| K900 | (probably updated to an appropriate nodejs version) | 16:07:33 |
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| 9 Mar 2026 |
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|  Norinco joined the room. | 16:23:36 |
| Norinco | I am a new nix-darwin user, and I'm currently trying to install nix-darwin and lix on my Mac. I've chosen ryan4yin/nix-darwin-kickstarter as my starter configuration. However, I noticed the following comment in the repo:
nix.enable = true; # TODO: set this to false if you're using Determinate Nix.
I don't quite understand what Determinate Nix is. My question is: if I install lix using the "New Installs" method from the official lix documentation (curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install), do I need to set nix.enable = false?
Also, if I do set nix.enable = false, how should I configure options like substituters and gc? | 16:36:28 |
| K900 | Determinate Nix is another fork (they say "distribution") of Nix | 16:37:59 |
| K900 | You can use nix.enable = true with Lix, though you'll want to also set nix.package = pkgs.lixPackageSets.latest.lix or similar | 16:38:21 |
| Norinco | Okay, thank you for your answer. | 16:40:53 |
 nasso | i will soon get a new macbook for work, and i was thinking maybe i might bite the bullet and try out nix-darwin on it??
im pretty new to nix still, and my main concern here is multi-user support. because i want to use this machine for both work and personal stuff, i need to setup two users (unclear yet which one(s) will be admin). is this a supported use-case for nix-darwin? how will that work???
(also i have never had multiple users on macOS so i guess im also new to that part lol) | 17:24:56 |
 samasaur | we do support multiple users, yes. it should Just Work, though some nix-darwin options really only apply to the activating user so you may want to avoid those and control them with home-manager instead | 17:33:22 |
 ragdoc | You might also want to have a look at the nix.settings.trusted-users option. | 17:35:11 |
| nasso | cool! thanks! i wonder if i will regret learning nix + nix-darwin + multi-user macOS all at once | 17:37:44 |
| ragdoc | There is not much to learn on the macOS side of things, don't worry. Users can either be admins or not, that's pretty much it. | 17:40:48 |
| 10 Mar 2026 |
| Norinco | Still regarding this issue, I just took a look at the lix installer repo and noticed it says 'Based on the Determinate Installer.'(https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix-installer#:~:text=A%20fast%2C%20friendly%2C%20and%20reliable%20tool%20to%20help%20you%20use%20Lix%2C%20the%20community%20implementation%20of%20the%20nix%20tooling.%20Based%20on%20the%20Determinate%20Installer.) Does this mean I really should be setting nix.enable = false? | 02:45:34 |
 Randy Eckenrode | No. Det Nix has a daemon that takes over some system manage stuff. Lix relies on the user (e.g., via nix-darwin) to update it. nix.enable should be true with Lix. | 02:53:59 |
| Randy Eckenrode | The installer is just what does the initial setup (creating the store, etc). The old installer is written in Bash. The Det Nix one (also used by Lix) is written in Rust. | 02:54:53 |
| Norinco | Got it, thanks for the reply. I looked through the ryan4yin/nix-darwin-kickstarter issues (https://github.com/ryan4yin/nix-darwin-kickstarter/issues/5) and it looks like this compatibility problem has already been fixed. | 03:04:35 |
| Norinco | 
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| Norinco | Is there a way to rebuild without using sudo directly? I don't want the generated lock file to be owned by root. | 06:37:26 |
| samasaur | darwin-rebuild build && sudo darwin-rebuild switch i suppose? | 06:38:17 |
| K900 | You can just run nix flake update first to generate the lockfile | 06:38:26 |
| samasaur | what generated lock file are you atalkinga bout | 06:38:31 |
| samasaur | because yeah flake.lock is usually written by other tooling | 06:38:50 |
| samasaur | * because yeah flake.lock is usually written by other commands | 06:39:16 |
| samasaur | * what generated lock file are you talking about | 06:39:25 |
| Norinco | solved the problem by running darwin-rebuild build && sudo darwin-rebuild switch | 06:43:54 |
| Norinco | 
Download image.png | 06:44:18 |
| samasaur | that does work though i would follow k900's suggestion and use nix flake update (if updating) or nix flake lock (if adding a new flake input) instead | 06:46:55 |
