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This project aims to bring the convenience of a declarative system approach to macOS. nix-darwin is built up around Nixpkgs, quite similar to NixOS.

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  • Since 2025

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  • Updated Aug 2026

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What is nix-darwin?

This project aims to bring the convenience of a declarative system approach to macOS. nix-darwin is built up around Nixpkgs, quite similar to NixOS.

The only prerequisite is a Nix implementation; both Nix and Lix are supported. As the official Nix installer does not include an automated uninstaller, consider using the Lix installer instead: https://lix.systems/install/#on-any-other-linuxmacos-system Requires adding a drive partition for the read only nix-store.

Using a flake.nix file you can apply MacOS configurations and install packages from nix repositories like the default nixpkgs: https://search.nixos.org/packages

Edit the default flake.nix [ /etc/nix-darwin/flake.nix ] and then run sudo nix run /etc/nix-darwin/master#darwin-rebuild -- switch