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assbuttbuttass on June 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why and how to add Home Manager to NixOS

I use NixOS daily on my PC, but I haven't tried home manager. I never saw the benefit since my dot files are managed in git anyway

garrisonhh on June 25, 2023 [–]

I use NixOS daily as well, I installed home-manager as part of my initial configuration and have basically just ended up using configuration.nix in a git repo for everything anyways since I'm the only user. It feels like a good idea in theory, but I don't think it's actually that useful for most

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