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Currently, not enough hardware support is upstream for the official NixOS installer to work properly on Apple Silicon Macs. A [https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/docs/uefi-standalone.md comprehensive guide] to using the Asahi Linux installer to install NixOS with a customized NixOS ISO is available.
Currently, not enough hardware support is upstream for the official NixOS installer to work properly on Apple Silicon Macs. A [https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/docs/uefi-standalone.md comprehensive guide] to using the Asahi Linux installer to install NixOS with a customized NixOS ISO is available.


=== Touchbar ===
Certain Macbook Pro models from 2020-2022 may include the Apple touchbar. Out of the box, the touchbar will be completely blank when running NixOS. The touchbar can be re-enabled by adding the following option to your configuration:<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">{
  hardware.apple.touchBar.enable = true;
}</syntaxhighlight>This will enable basic function row emulation using the [https://github.com/AsahiLinux/tiny-dfr tiny-dfr] package provided by the [https://asahilinux.org/ Asahi Linux project].
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