{"id":13630,"date":"2025-06-07T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=13630"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:22:58","slug":"the-desire-to-install-mix-on-a-2016-mbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/the-desire-to-install-mix-on-a-2016-mbp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desire to Install Mix on a 2016 MBP"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>I have a Mac Book Pro that is dormant at the moment. I retired it because it became slow and unreliable. It&#8217;s a 2016 Mac Book Pro. This was never a great machine. I bought it cheaply because my good machine was stolen. I replaced the battery a few years ago and I was going to do the same, until I saw that it was retired by Apple. Without updates I didn&#8217;t see much point in paying 200 CHF for a battery for a machine that will run Linux when I can get a machine for that price.<\/p>\n<p>I would have installed Nix this afternoon, if it wasn&#8217;t for the fact that I am in exile due to the first noisy Nyon Music Festival. We could hear the noise pollution from Caribana in Prangins. In a country that bans lawnmowers at lunch time and hoovers on Sunday it seems absurd that music festivals are allowed to make noise from 1800-0300 without consequences, year in, year out, for decades, except on Lockdown years.<\/p>\n<p>Nix is different from other OSes because it is declarative. You have a text file where you specify your configuration, and it can be ported between machines with ease, over and over. Once one machine is configured you can easily migrate to a new machine and have the same experience.<\/p>\n<p>If you make a mistake you can revert to a previous version that worked by rebooting and selecting the iteration that you desire.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I want to install Nix on that machine specifically is that I am used to the keyboard layout. I have Nix on another machine but I believe that one of the USB ports fries drives that are connected. I&#8217;d rather use Nix on a machine that I trust.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the learning curve. If I try to use NIX as a daily driver it will become familiar, and with that familiarity will come fluency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>I have a Mac Book Pro that is dormant at the moment. I retired it because it became slow and unreliable. It&#8217;s a 2016 Mac Book Pro. This was never a great machine. I bought it cheaply because my good machine was stolen. I replaced the battery a few years ago and I was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[6903,398,6340],"class_list":["post-13630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-related","tag-intel","tag-mac","tag-nix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13631,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630\/revisions\/13631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}