Nix-Darwin on Marius' Bloghttps://meschter.me/tags/nix-darwin/Recent content in Nix-Darwin on Marius' BlogHugoen-usSat, 09 May 2026 18:52:43 +0200Understanding Nix from first principleshttps://meschter.me/posts/nix-from-first-principles/Sat, 09 May 2026 18:52:43 +0200https://meschter.me/posts/nix-from-first-principles/<p>I had never actually used Nix, but have always wanted to play around with it. Looking into it I was immediately overwhelmed. In the end I followed a few guides, wrote some files and ran some commands and it worked. This however did not satisfy me and I wanted to know what actually happens, when I run nix or nix-darwin commands. In this post I wanted to share my journey a bit and explain nix from the bottom up as I understand it now.</p>