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I've been meaning to switch home manager to flake mode. This will be helpful, thanks.
I recently flipped my config over to a flake, and I’m glad I did. Feels like flakes are just easier to understand with less mystery.
If you have time, may I ask you to please provide more opinion on what's easier to understand?
We are always looking for more input.
This guide I feel like falls more into the former, it gives you a really basic example but isn’t enough to go off for me.
I want to setup my configs using Nix and Home Manager but I just find it so confusing and not very user friendly. Every guide I’ve seen is either a really basic case of setting up a single package and config or an extremely complicated setup using Flakes that I can’t wrap my head around. This guide I feel like falls more into the former, it gives you a really basic example but isn’t enough to go off for me.
I found a set of tutorials on YouTube by Will, to be incredibly helpful at the beginning of my NixOS journey. Even though these tutorials are a couple of years old, they should have aged well.
Drake's book, should help confirm some assumptions I've made about how NixOS works. Given NixOS's declarative nature, I find it easy to copy configurations to do what I want - a handy approach when pressed for time, but it does leave some gaps in understanding that need to be filled.
You can find the tutorials I mentioned at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-saUBvIJzOkjAw_vOac7...
The tutorials are easy to understand and have good explanations
I want to setup my configs using Nix and Home Manager but I just find it so confusing and not very user friendly. Every guide I’ve seen is either a really basic case of setting up a single package and config or an extremely complicated setup using Flakes that I can’t wrap my head around. This guide I feel like falls more into the former, it gives you a really basic example but isn’t enough to go off for me.
Nix shell plus something like direnv using flakes or nix expressions (non-flake approach) would give you a chance to learn the language and ecosystem. Once you feel comfortable with this, home-manager should be much more approachable.
I want to setup my configs using Nix and Home Manager but I just find it so confusing and not very user friendly. Every guide I’ve seen is either a really basic case of setting up a single package and config or an extremely complicated setup using Flakes that I can’t wrap my head around. This guide I feel like falls more into the former, it gives you a really basic example but isn’t enough to go off for me.
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I recently flipped my config over to a flake, and I’m glad I did. Feels like flakes are just easier to understand with less mystery.
I don't think so. there is a lot of hidden complexitxy in flakes. If you have time, may I ask you to please provide more opinion on what's easier to understand? We are always looking for more input.
From the linked “how to enable flakes” article: > As you can see, it uses our ./configuration.nix as a module. What are modules again? Per NixOS wiki: > > Modules are files combined by NixOS to produce the full system configuration. A module contains a Nix expression. It declares options for other modules to define (give a value). It processes them and defines options declared in other modules. > Simple as. If only.…
>If only. Could you please elaborate?
Nix has volumes of half useful documentation like this.
I use NixOS daily on my PC, but I haven't tried home manager. I never saw the benefit since my dot files are managed in git anyway