| 12 Mar 2026 |
 redbunnyninja | thanks, finally found it :D | 09:19:40 |
| redbunnyninja | yep i got this in there. i was just trying to figure out why i couldn't see things working in my fish shell that i have from homebrew. when i just started up fish from nix, it has /run/current-system/sw/bin in the PATH now. | 09:20:42 |
 emily | it does not look like we'd have to support cross to x86 on very many packages at all to make that work | 09:21:30 |
| redbunnyninja | the nix installed fish doesn't have my other configured PATHs though. i wonder why it uses a different configuration then the one i have in ~/.config/fish/ | 09:21:55 |
 samasaur | where do you set your "other configured paths"? | 09:22:36 |
| emily | it should use your main configuration. it won't use /etc/paths.d though | 09:22:54 |
| redbunnyninja | in various files under ~/.config/fish/ | 09:22:57 |
| redbunnyninja | like /Users/muyuser/miniconda3/condabin gets set in ~/.config/fish/conf.d/conda.fish | 09:23:47 |
| samasaur | that... should get picked up by default, yeah | 09:24:19 |
| redbunnyninja | and its also missing stuff like /Library/Apple/usr/bin which i honestly don't know where it comes from :D | 09:24:53 |
| samasaur | and you said running homebrew fish properly picks up your existing config? | 09:25:09 |
| redbunnyninja | yep that works fine | 09:25:21 |
| redbunnyninja | thats what i've been using so far | 09:25:30 |
| samasaur | even post activating your nix-darwin config? | 09:25:44 |
| samasaur | I'm wondering whether it's a (fish via nix issue) or a (fish with nix-darwin) issue | 09:26:17 |
| redbunnyninja | not exactly sure what you mean by "activating" here. i'm about 3 hours into nix over a span of 2 days :D | 09:26:24 |
| redbunnyninja | some stuff nix fish picked up actually, like my pixi path. | 09:27:13 |
| samasaur | does it still work after you did sudo darwin-rebuild switch and got fish config files in /etc that point to the nix store | 09:27:18 |
| samasaur | actually sorry I have to go to sleep but can try and debug this with you tomorrow (for me at least) | 09:28:36 |
| redbunnyninja | nodice | 09:31:34 |
| redbunnyninja | ╭─ /run/current-system/sw/bin ··········································································································································································· 10:27:35
╰─❮ ./fish
Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish
╭─ /run/current-system/sw/bin ··········································································································································································· 10:27:37
╰─❯ cd /etc/nix-darwin
╭─ /etc/nix-darwin ······················································································································································································ 10:28:00
╰─❯ sudo darwin-rebuild switch
building the system configuration...
setting up /Applications/Nix Apps...
setting up pam...
applying patches...
setting up /etc...
user defaults...
setting up launchd services...
configuring networking...
configuring application firewall...
configuring power...
setting up /Library/Fonts/Nix Fonts...
setting nvram variables...
Homebrew bundle...
`brew bundle` complete! 0 Brewfile dependencies now installed.
╭─ /etc/nix-darwin ·············································································································································································· 11s 10:28:15
╰─❯ echo $PATH
/Users/myuser/.pixi/bin /Users/myuser/.toolbox/bin /Users/myuser/go/bin /opt/homebrew/sbin /opt/homebrew/bin /Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS /Users/myuser/.nix-profile/bin /run/current-system/sw/bin /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /Users/myuser/.local/bin /Users/myuser/.local/bin
╭─ /etc/nix-darwin ······················································································································································································ 10:28:20
╰─❯ echo "going back to homebrew fish"; exit
going back to homebrew fish
╭─ /run/current-system/sw/bin ································································································································································ 1m 13s 10:28:50
╰─❮ echo $PATH
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin /Users/myuser/.pixi/bin /Users/myuser/.toolbox/bin /Users/myuser/go/bin /opt/homebrew/sbin /opt/homebrew/bin /Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS /Users/myuser/miniconda3/condabin /usr/local/bin /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin /opt/pmk/env/global/bin /Library/Apple/usr/bin /Users/myuser/.local/bin /Users/myuser/.local/bin
| 09:31:42 |
| redbunnyninja | good night and thanks! | 09:31:50 |
| redbunnyninja | * ╭─ /run/current-system/sw/bin ··········································································································································································· 10:27:35
╰─❮ ./fish
Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish
╭─ /run/current-system/sw/bin ··········································································································································································· 10:27:37
╰─❯ cd /etc/nix-darwin
╭─ /etc/nix-darwin ······················································································································································································ 10:28:00
╰─❯ sudo darwin-rebuild switch
building the system configuration...
setting up /Applications/Nix Apps...
setting up pam...
applying patches...
setting up /etc...
user defaults...
setting up launchd services...
configuring networking...
configuring application firewall...
configuring power...
setting up /Library/Fonts/Nix Fonts...
setting nvram variables...
Homebrew bundle...
`brew bundle` complete! 0 Brewfile dependencies now installed.
╭─ /etc/nix-darwin ·············································································································································································· 11s 10:28:15
╰─❯ echo $PATH
/Users/myuser/.pixi/bin /Users/myuser/.toolbox/bin /Users/myuser/go/bin /opt/homebrew/sbin /opt/homebrew/bin /Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS /Users/myuser/.nix-profile/bin /run/current-system/sw/bin /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /Users/myuser/.local/bin /Users/myuser/.local/bin
╭─ /etc/nix-darwin ······················································································································································································ 10:28:20
╰─❯ echo "going back to homebrew fish"; exit
going back to homebrew fish
╭─ /run/current-system/sw/bin ································································································································································ 1m 13s 10:28:50
╰─❮ echo $PATH
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin /Users/myuser/.pixi/bin /Users/myuser/go/bin /opt/homebrew/sbin /opt/homebrew/bin /Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS /Users/myuser/miniconda3/condabin /usr/local/bin /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin /opt/pmk/env/global/bin /Library/Apple/usr/bin /Users/myuser/.local/bin /Users/myuser/.local/bin
| 09:33:22 |
 Randy Eckenrode | Upstream seems to think it’s Apple’s problem to address. | 10:34:49 |
| Randy Eckenrode | I’ve tried. You need to cross-compile Python for some reason, which isn’t supported on Darwin. | 10:35:40 |
| Randy Eckenrode | 26.05 will still be around for those who need Wine. | 10:35:44 |
 ragdoc | Random driveby report: Meddling with nix-darwin on a MacBook Neo for the first time. Nothing cruel and unusual so far. Lix installer worked without a hitch. The little box is generally quite responsive, currently chugging along building nodejs-slim-25.8.0 with six clang++ processes. Full CPU load, but no memory pressure. Not bad for 8 GB RAM and an iPhone processor. I like it. | 14:24:13 |
| redbunnyninja set a profile picture. | 14:29:43 |
| Randy Eckenrode | It’s a shame the RAM isn’t configurable. | 15:06:21 |
| Randy Eckenrode | It’s been tempting to upgrade to the M5 Max, but I’m trying to hold off. | 15:07:41 |
