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dotfiles

My dotfiles (by rasendubi)
Dotfiles Nixos emacs-configuration nix-dotfiles org-mode-configuration
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Home Manager using Nix

Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee] (by nix-community)
Configuration Management Nix Nixpkgs Dotfiles Nixos nix-dotfiles
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215 6,591
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about 1 year ago 7 days ago
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dotfiles

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Home Manager using Nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Home Manager using Nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-19.
  • Easy GitHub CLI Extensions with Nix
    3 projects | dev.to | 19 Aug 2024
    Nix Home Manager is a tool for managing a user environment with Nix. It already has a nice way to install and configure gh with the programs.gh option:
  • Managing NixOS Secrets via SOPS, sops-nix and opsops
    6 projects | dev.to | 3 Aug 2024
    The data definition and operational model of SOPS is well suited for a Nix-powered system. sops-nix offers both NixOS and Nix Home Manager modules which provide a declarative way to manage secrets using SOPS.
  • Turn Your Android Tablet into an IDE with VSCode and Nix
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2024
    There is also nix-on-droid[1] which is a fork of Termux allowing you to manage your environment with nix (similar to home-manager[2])

    [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-on-droid

    [2]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

  • Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024
    It's probably overkill for what you are trying to do. But I have been using home-manager [0] as a way to quickly restore my working environment.

    [0] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/

  • How do I actually update home-manager?
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 6 Dec 2023
    $ home-manager --version 23.05 $ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.11.tar.gz home-manager $ nix-channel --update $ nix-shell '' -A install [...] All done! The home-manager tool should now be installed and you can edit /home/MY-USERNAME/.config/home-manager/home.nix to configure Home Manager. Run 'man home-configuration.nix' to see all available options. $ home-manager --version 23.05
  • Possible to use KDE plugins on nixos?
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 6 Dec 2023
    Unfortunately until we find more volunteers in this area, it is hard to see status quo changing. See also https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/607 and this ongoing project https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
  • Exclude packages in home manager
    1 project | /r/NixOS | 5 Dec 2023
  • An Overview of Nix in Practice
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    > Channels are, AFAIU, a reference to some point-in-time/commit/version of nixpkgs

    It's not specifically nixpkgs, but any Nix code generally.

    Per the Nix manual[0]:

    > Channels are a mechanism for referencing remote Nix expressions and conveniently retrieving their latest version.

    e.g. home-manager's suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]:

      nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
  • Fake recruiter Lazarus lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023
    It sounds like you'd benefit a lot from Nix/NixOS [1], if not just home-manager[2].

    1. https://nixos.org/

    2. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

  • Noob question: Where home-manager config after installed on archlinux
    1 project | /r/Nix | 11 Sep 2023
    nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager nix-channel --update nix-shell '' -A install
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