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Tell macOS users how to open the terminal #1116
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Cmd-space Terminal? |
To be honest I don't think that necessary. Users who plan to use Nix on MacOS should know how to open the terminal (like any other app). It's not Nix's responsibility to explain that. |
I might be a rare species of user that learns macOS only because of Nix, yet I believe there may be others of my kind. If not for professional reasons - having to support macOS (poor souls), they might have just switched to it because of fast hardware, and installing Nix is the first thing they do on the platform. |
I'm also very sure the first thing a user would do is press Cmd+Space and type "terminal" or open a browser tab/window and type "open terminal on mac" to have the answer in the (preview of the) first hit. Maybe link to Apple's Terminal User Guide, if you wish. |
I didn't know about Cmd+Space, because I was a Linux user who had to learn the macOS UI for the first time, for work reasons. If you don't want to help Linux users by spending like 4 words, that seems unfortunate. |
Fair point, there's enough room on the page. Maybe something like this?
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Yeah, that's good. I think we can even recover some brevity. I do agree with the earlier idea that we can assume some level of familiarity:
My suggestion would be:
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I am a MacOS user for long so know [Cmd]-[Space] but I ran the script as I totally agree to add |
Introduce your stance
I'm a Nixer first, and I am perpetually new to macOS, as I generally only use it over ssh, when I have to.
That makes launching the Terminal a challenge for me. It would be nice to help out with this.
I have to acknowledge that macOS users who don't know how to run the Terminal app is not our target audience, but I'm not a macOS user. I suspect that some other community members fit this profile, but perhaps not all that many.
Describe the issue
I'd suggest adding something like this to the download page
or something that's easier.
Page links
https://nixos.org/download#nix-install-macos
Additional context
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