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A guide to getting started with home manager with flakes and all that 2024 goodness.

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The [instructions linked to install home-manager ](https://github.com/Evertras/simple-homemanager/blob/main/01-install.md#install-home-manager )point the user to install home-manager with `nix-shell '' -A install` In order to progress I had to add a nixpkgs channel and...

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[The function call and inherit](https://github.com/Evertras/simple-homemanager/blob/main/04-explain-outputs-function.md#the-function-call-and-inherit) > How are you supposed to know this? You read it somewhere and copy/paste like the rest of us. Welcome to Nix! I actually still...

https://github.com/jirafey/nixconfig It's pretty long but has a few problems that may happen on other machines. Hope it helps someone.

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In the docs (https://github.com/Evertras/simple-homemanager/blob/main/02-basic-repository-setup.md#init-a-git-repository) it says that we can create a `my-home-manager` (or similar) directory anywhere. But in some guides, and with some installation methods, we also end up with...

In Chapter 6, you noted that https://github.com/Evertras/simple-homemanager/blob/8e19b994039ae0c7052cce77ef17ef47a0b9b8f0/06-explain-home-nix.md?plain=1#L174-L180 and https://github.com/Evertras/simple-homemanager/blob/8e19b994039ae0c7052cce77ef17ef47a0b9b8f0/06-explain-home-nix.md?plain=1#L248-L255 But why? Sure, using modules like https://github.com/nix-community/nixvim is more "elegant" than copying and pasting `~/.config/nvim/init.lua` from an existing system, but the...

At the very beginning of the guide, you describe how it's needed to enable flake support and the nix command after installing nix. This tedious step can be avoided by...

update 23.11 nixpkgs channel to 25.05 nixpkgs channel in repository setup reference and in documentation