Document Nix Codex CLI requirement - #399
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I don't think this is a good recommendation for nix users.
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would be better to provide a home-manager and nixos module that installs the codex cli package alongside
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codexavailable themselves or setCODEX_CLI_PATH.nix runappearing to do nothing while the launcher writes the real error to~/.cache/codex-desktop/launcher.log.Why
Issue #395 shows that Nix users can hit a silent-looking launch failure when the app starts successfully but stops at CLI lookup because the Codex CLI is missing. This was not the upstream patch drift fixed in #397; it is a Nix docs/UX gap.
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