<story><title>macOS Sonoma is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/macos-sonoma-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n8henrie</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nixos.org&amp;#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nixos.org&amp;#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I&amp;#x27;ve really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn&amp;#x27;t replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it&amp;#x27;s getting closer every day.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>So it goes...&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Warning: You are using macOS 11.
  We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
  It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version.
  It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow.
  Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew&amp;#x27;s GitHub repositories.
  Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated.
  Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
  Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
  You may ask for help in Homebrew&amp;#x27;s discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
  Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
  We will review it but may or may not accept it.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdaniel</author><text>I want to like Nix but those installation instructions for macOS (and their removal friend) are just crazypants as compared to the `sudo mkdir &amp;#x2F;nix &amp;amp;&amp;amp; sudo chown $USER &amp;#x2F;nix` from the Linux version&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s not even getting into the &amp;quot;waaa?&amp;quot; from `du -hs &amp;#x2F;nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface</text></comment>
<story><title>macOS Sonoma is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/macos-sonoma-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n8henrie</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nixos.org&amp;#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nixos.org&amp;#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I&amp;#x27;ve really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn&amp;#x27;t replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it&amp;#x27;s getting closer every day.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>So it goes...&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Warning: You are using macOS 11.
  We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
  It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version.
  It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow.
  Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew&amp;#x27;s GitHub repositories.
  Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated.
  Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
  Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
  You may ask for help in Homebrew&amp;#x27;s discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
  Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
  We will review it but may or may not accept it.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxonia</author><text>Yes, the Homebrew message does seem unnecessarily hostile. Not everyone can afford to buy a brand new computer every year.</text></comment>