I have a few beginner question, what is the difference between nix shell/env and what is the difference between flakes/home-manager?

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  • Home Manager using Nix

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

    • home-manager is a tool to manage your home with modules. It is like NixOS but for your home. It doesn't really have much to do with flakes except that you can use it with flakes.

  • nix-direnv

    A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]

    • I'm not sure what you mean by nix env, maybe you are referring to nix-direnv?

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