diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b87a13ca..2a0915cf 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ harness = false
 
 [features]
 default = ["kms", "x11", "x11-dlopen", "wayland", "wayland-dlopen"]
-kms = ["bytemuck", "drm", "nix"]
-wayland = ["wayland-backend", "wayland-client", "memmap2", "nix", "fastrand"]
+kms = ["bytemuck", "drm", "libc", "rustix"]
+wayland = ["wayland-backend", "wayland-client", "memmap2", "rustix", "fastrand"]
 wayland-dlopen = ["wayland-sys/dlopen"]
-x11 = ["as-raw-xcb-connection", "bytemuck", "nix", "tiny-xlib", "x11rb"]
+x11 = ["as-raw-xcb-connection", "bytemuck", "libc", "rustix", "tiny-xlib", "x11rb"]
 x11-dlopen = ["tiny-xlib/dlopen", "x11rb/dl-libxcb"]
 
 [dependencies]
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ as-raw-xcb-connection = { version = "1.0.0", optional = true }
 bytemuck = { version = "1.12.3", optional = true }
 drm = { version = "0.10.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 memmap2 = { version = "0.9.0", optional = true }
-nix = { version = "0.27.0", features = ["fs", "mman"], optional = true }
+libc = { version = "0.2.149", optional = true }
+rustix = { version = "0.38.19", features = ["fs", "mm", "shm"], optional = true }
 tiny-xlib = { version = "0.2.1", optional = true }
 wayland-backend = { version = "0.3.0", features = ["client_system"], optional = true }
 wayland-client = { version = "0.31.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/kms.rs b/src/kms.rs
index 76f05a42..18f458f4 100644
--- a/src/kms.rs
+++ b/src/kms.rs
@@ -332,10 +332,8 @@ impl BufferImpl<'_> {
         // this is going to fail. Low hanging fruit PR: add a flag that's set to false if this
         // returns `ENOSYS` and check that before allocating the above and running this.
         match self.display.dirty_framebuffer(self.front_fb, &rectangles) {
-            Ok(())
-            | Err(drm::SystemError::Unknown {
-                errno: nix::errno::Errno::ENOSYS,
-            }) => {}
+            Ok(()) => {}
+            Err(drm::SystemError::Unknown { errno }) if errno as i32 == libc::ENOSYS => {}
             Err(e) => {
                 return Err(SoftBufferError::PlatformError(
                     Some("failed to dirty framebuffer".into()),
diff --git a/src/wayland/buffer.rs b/src/wayland/buffer.rs
index 2f044ca4..0c8bf860 100644
--- a/src/wayland/buffer.rs
+++ b/src/wayland/buffer.rs
@@ -18,35 +18,19 @@ use super::State;
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 fn create_memfile() -> File {
-    use nix::{
-        fcntl::{fcntl, FcntlArg, SealFlag},
-        sys::memfd::{memfd_create, MemFdCreateFlag},
-    };
+    use rustix::fs::{MemfdFlags, SealFlags};
 
     let name = unsafe { CStr::from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked("softbuffer\0".as_bytes()) };
-    let fd = memfd_create(
-        name,
-        MemFdCreateFlag::MFD_CLOEXEC | MemFdCreateFlag::MFD_ALLOW_SEALING,
-    )
-    .expect("Failed to create memfd to store buffer.");
-    let _ = fcntl(
-        fd.as_raw_fd(),
-        FcntlArg::F_ADD_SEALS(SealFlag::F_SEAL_SHRINK | SealFlag::F_SEAL_SEAL),
-    )
-    .expect("Failed to seal memfd.");
+    let fd = rustix::fs::memfd_create(name, MemfdFlags::CLOEXEC | MemfdFlags::ALLOW_SEALING)
+        .expect("Failed to create memfd to store buffer.");
+    rustix::fs::fcntl_add_seals(&fd, SealFlags::SHRINK | SealFlags::SEAL)
+        .expect("Failed to seal memfd.");
     File::from(fd)
 }
 
 #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "freebsd")))]
 fn create_memfile() -> File {
-    use nix::{
-        errno::Errno,
-        fcntl::OFlag,
-        sys::{
-            mman::{shm_open, shm_unlink},
-            stat::Mode,
-        },
-    };
+    use rustix::{fs::Mode, io::Errno, shm::ShmOFlags};
     use std::iter;
 
     // Use a cached RNG to avoid hammering the thread local.
@@ -59,14 +43,14 @@ fn create_memfile() -> File {
 
         let name = unsafe { CStr::from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked(name.as_bytes()) };
         // `CLOEXEC` is implied with `shm_open`
-        let fd = shm_open(
+        let fd = rustix::shm::shm_open(
             name,
-            OFlag::O_RDWR | OFlag::O_CREAT | OFlag::O_EXCL,
-            Mode::S_IRWXU,
+            ShmOFlags::RDWR | ShmOFlags::CREATE | ShmOFlags::EXCL,
+            Mode::RWXU,
         );
-        if !matches!(fd, Err(Errno::EEXIST)) {
+        if !matches!(fd, Err(Errno::EXIST)) {
             let fd = fd.expect("Failed to create POSIX shm to store buffer.");
-            let _ = shm_unlink(name);
+            let _ = rustix::shm::shm_unlink(name);
             return File::from(fd);
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/x11.rs b/src/x11.rs
index c9e546f2..8fcd7c2d 100644
--- a/src/x11.rs
+++ b/src/x11.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 use crate::error::SwResultExt;
 use crate::{Rect, SoftBufferError};
-use nix::libc::{shmat, shmctl, shmdt, shmget, IPC_PRIVATE, IPC_RMID};
+use libc::{shmat, shmctl, shmdt, shmget, IPC_PRIVATE, IPC_RMID};
 use raw_window_handle::{XcbDisplayHandle, XcbWindowHandle, XlibDisplayHandle, XlibWindowHandle};
 use std::ptr::{null_mut, NonNull};
 use std::{