Please note that these instructions are not offically supported or condoned by Nix and are not guaranteed to always work, but from my testing everything seems to work perfectly fine.

These steps may not be required if NixOS/nix#2374 is resolved.

These commands are required for both Fedora Workstation and Fedora Silverblue

sudo semanage fcontext -a -t etc_t '/nix/store/[^/]+/etc(/.*)?'
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t lib_t '/nix/store/[^/]+/lib(/.*)?'
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t systemd_unit_file_t '/nix/store/[^/]+/lib/systemd/system(/.*)?'
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t man_t '/nix/store/[^/]+/man(/.*)?'
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t bin_t '/nix/store/[^/]+/s?bin(/.*)?'
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t usr_t '/nix/store/[^/]+/share(/.*)?'
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t var_run_t '/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket(/.*)?'
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t usr_t '/nix/var/nix/profiles(/per-user/[^/]+)?/[^/]+'

If you are on Fedora Workstation, skip past the Fedora Silverblue section down to Install Nix

If you are running Fedora Silverblue, you will need to follow these extra steps.

sudo mkdir /var/nix

[Unit]
Description=Enable mount points in / for ostree
DefaultDependencies=no
ConditionPathExists=!%f

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStartPre=chattr -i /
ExecStart=mkdir -p '%f'
ExecStopPost=chattr +i /

[Unit]
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[Mount]
What=/var/nix
Where=/nix
Options=bind
Type=none

[Install]
WantedBy=local-fs.target

Enable and mount the nix mount and reset the SELinux context.

# Ensure systemd picks up the newly created units
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
# Enable the nix mount on boot.
sudo systemctl enable nix.mount
# Mount the nix mount now.
sudo systemctl start nix.mount
# R = recurse, F = full context (not just target)
sudo restorecon -RF /nix

After you have configured SELinux (and if you are on Silverblue, configured a /nix mount), it's time to install Nix.

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon

If you are on Fedora Workstation, you have just installed Nix and should be ready to rock!

If you are on Fedora Silverblue, you will need to run a few more commands:

sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.socket
sudo systemctl link /var/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service
sudo systemctl link /var/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/systemd/system/nix-daemon.socket
sudo systemctl add-requires nix-daemon.socket nix.mount

This links the nix services from /var/nix rather than /nix which fixes an issue where the units would not start automatically on boot due to systemd not finding the services files due to them missing until nix.mount gets mounted. It also adds a requirement that nix.mount be mounted before nix-daemon.socket can start.