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What parts of your workflow rely on HomeManager?
by nextos 1y ago
What parts of your workflow rely on HomeManager?
- rkomorn 1y agosway and waybar's configuration management is better through HomeManager (again: unless I basically raw-configure everything). Not quite sure where in nixpkgs swayidle configs would go, based on the sway module. Some other user-levels get tossed in there by virtue of "since HomeManager's there, I may as well use it". It seems that most wiki pages that I see that have both NixOS and HomeManager sections at the very least make HomeManager seem more featureful or flexible.
- nextos 1y agoI've personally found a good compromise between using NixOS (without Home Manager) and classical dotfiles for home. My dotfiles are independent of the distribution, and also work in e.g. Arch.
- rkomorn 1y agoI'm actually writing a script that takes my materialized NixOS-managed configs and backs them up in git so I can indeed port them to another distro if I decide to move away from NixOS (hedging my bets since NixOS is my 5th different OS/distro on this laptop). Not having NixOS manage configs (itself or via HomeManager), though, very much reduces the value proposition of NixOS in my mind.