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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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944 points 6a74 | 3 comments | 10 Oct 24 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.599s | source
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whimsicalism ◴[10 Oct 24 22:58 UTC] No.41804426[source]▶
Wish NixOS (or at least Arch) were supported on the level that Fedora is
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opengears ◴[10 Oct 24 23:31 UTC] No.41804635[source]▶
NixOS is fully supported https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/do...
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whimsicalism ◴[11 Oct 24 02:07 UTC] No.41805412[source]▶
and yet how do i install this gaming support on nixos?
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pxc ◴[11 Oct 24 09:49 UTC] No.41807948[source]▶
You'd have to package FEX :D

For the kind of person who wants to run NixOS on Apple Silicon or do Linux gaming on Apple Silicon in the first place, that's probably interesting and not too hard

but if you're allergic to that, you might be able to figure something else out with Box64, which is already packaged in Nixpkgs

x86_64 gaming on NixOS is of course well supported and has been for a long time. There's a 'native' package that I've always used and the Steam Flatpak is also available and works as well as it does anywhere

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1. whimsicalism ◴[11 Oct 24 15:35 UTC] No.41810410[source]▶
we are talking about asahi linux. i think it is pretty clear that nixos isn’t supported like a first class citizen because you have to do a fair bit of work to make all of the more recent userspace fixes work on NixOS. i run NixOS Asahi so I know.

it was easier when Arch was a first class citizen but the advice nowadays you get upon encountering a problem on Arch is to switch to Fedora

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2. IntelMiner ◴[11 Oct 24 19:48 UTC] No.41812943[source]▶
Perhaps if the NixOS folks want better support they should invest more time in keeping up with Asahi Fedora?

The developers can use what they want. Marcan famously used Gentoo for many years

3. pxc ◴[12 Oct 24 07:47 UTC] No.41817249[source]▶
> you have to do a fair bit of work to make all of the more recent userspace fixes work on NixOS

Is it fundamentally different from any other Nix packaging work in some way?