Home Manager using Nix

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  • Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2025
    (Declarative rclone https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/6101)
  • My new Nix series!
    8 projects | dev.to | 27 Dec 2024
    Atop all this is the Nix Operating System, or NixOS. NixOS brings all of the declarative goodness of Nix into a Linux distribution. This means that (almost) everything about your system is declarative, including the packages (obviously), the users, the desktop, the login manager, systemd units, containers, and among other things, even the bootloader! Through some extensions, you can also partition disks, build images, and even configure your home folder. A single NixOS configuration is built into multiple pre-configured operating systems using just a single command!
  • Home Manager using Nix for User Environment
    1 project | dev.to | 13 Dec 2024
    Read more at: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
  • I configure my Git identities
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2024
    While I don't use NixOS or home-manager, I would imagine this provides some extra value: i.e. config is versioned or easy to move between machines.

    Curiosity got the better of me so I looked it up at https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/ and it indeed does purport to provide benefits I guessed at and then some.

    Whether that's better than just manually managing things yourself is altogether a different matter.

  • 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
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