1. home-manager is perfectly usable on any linux distro, that's in fact how the eventual transition to nixos started for me -- by porting my home config (on ubu

1. home-manager is perfectly usable on any linux distro, that's in fact how the eventual transition to nixos started for me -- by porting my home config (on ubuntu, at the time) to home-manager. in fact I still keep my os-config and home-config repos separate, so my home config should still on non-nixos if the need arises 2. you don't need to "translate" any existing config files, it's perfectly fine to use them as-is.