Catalina Support - Nix

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Kit Langton

I know there were some issues with Nix functioning properly on macOS 10.15 (Catalina). Does anyone know if that's still an issue or not?

Sridhar Ratnakumar

The Github issue is still open, but people have reported success using this workaround: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-539570232

This is not a short term bug, but it will become an issue when macOS Catalina is released this fall. macOS is now split across two volumes (system and data) with a read-only system volume. This mea...