How to install GUI apps with nix on non-NixOS systems?

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  • Home Manager using Nix

    Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

    • If you use nix to manage the packages for a user on a different distro you can use https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager to manage settings and packages declaratively, and then basically you one need to source a single file in your shell profile (or the profile of your de) which sets up the stuff to find the desktop files and more.

  • nix-config

    Discontinued NixOS + home-manager + Emacs configuration flake (by akirak)

    • On Chrome OS, the instruction is documented at https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Installing_Nix_on_Crostini, but I am using the following home-manager module: https://github.com/akirak/nix-config/blob/cd52178b684664c55ea50159d0f6aa5ea6b1a33e/home/modules/crostini.nix

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