How I ended up on a MacBook (and actually liked it)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0200

For about 10 years I’ve worked at the same company, and for about 9 of those years I’ve been running NixOS on my work machine with a setup that I’ve built and tuned exactly the way I want it.

Then corporate security decided that all devices needed to be managed. That’s a perfectly reasonable requirement from their side, but it’s not something that works with a custom NixOS setup. So I got handed a MacBook Pro.

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How I ended up on a MacBook (and actually liked it)