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xyno.space
Personal blog · xyno.space/postprogrammingsystems
xyno.space is a personal blog at xyno.space about programming and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link xyno.space for its posts on running NixOS on Apple Silicon Macs, such as a NixOS-in-UTM setup with Rosetta. Comments cite the posts as a way to get Linux on M1 hardware.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /post/nixos-utm-rosetta2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-15
What Hacker News says?
Hmm, my edit below erased my original comment, as I wasn't paying attention... Anyway, the gist is that NixOS runs great in Parallels, using the patched parallels-tools module from this nixos config: https://github.com/wegank/nixos-config/tree/main/hardware/pa... Some packages on nixpkgs aren't available for aarch64-linux, but mostly unfree stuff like Spotify that's available on macOS. Overall I really like it, and…
Comment linking /post/nixos-utm-rosetta
on “Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?”Submitted macOS Configuration Using Nix-Darwin And home-manager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have a MBP M1 and considered this, but instead I went with NixOS running in a VM inside macOS: https://xyno.space/post/nixos-utm-rosetta . This means I can use all the stuff that Linux-on-M1 currently doesn't support (e.g. webcam, power management, external displays) in macOS while having a NixOS instance available too. It should also -- at least theoretically — allow me to use Rosetta to run x86 Linux binaries. H…
Comment linking /post/nixos-utm-rosetta
on “NixOS on M1”