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 </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Save the file and run:</p><pre tabindex=0><code>home-manager switch
-</code></pre><p>You should see another wave of <code>/nix/store/*</code> paths. The new configuration should now be active.</p><p>If you run <code>zsh</code>, you should see that you have <a href=https://starship.rs/ class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>starship</a> and access to several other utils such as <code>rg</code>, <code>fd</code>, and <code>exa</code>.</p><p>This basic configuration above is also defining your <code>~/.config/git/config</code> and <code>.zshrc</code>. If you already have either of these files, home-manager will complain about them already existing.</p><p>If you run <code>cat ~/.zshrc</code>, you will see the way these configuration files are generated.</p><p>You can extend this configuration for programs such as (neo)vim, emacs, alacritty, ssh, etc. To see other programs, take a look at <a href=https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/tree/master/modules/programs class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>home-manager/modules/programs</a>.</p><h2 id=gateway-to-nix>Gateway To Nix<a href=#gateway-to-nix class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h2><p>In ways, home-manager can be seen as a gateway to the nix ecosystem. If you have enjoyed the way you can declare user configuration with home-manager, you may be interested in expanding your configuration to include other system dependencies and configuration. For example, in Linux you can define your entire system&rsquo;s configuration (including the kernel, kernel modules, networking, filesystems, etc) in nix. For macOS, there is <a href=https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>nix-darwin</a> that includes nix modules for configuring launchd, dock, and other preferences and services. You may also want to check out <a href=https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>Nix Flakes</a>: a more recent feature that allows you declare dependencies, and have them automatically pinned and hashed in <code>flake.lock</code>, similar to that of many modern package managers.</p><h2 id=wrapping-up>Wrapping up<a href=#wrapping-up class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h2><p>The title of this post is slightly misleading, since it&rsquo;s possible to retain some of your dotfiles and have them intermingle with home-manager by including them alongside nix. The idea of defining user configuration using nix can provide a clean way to maintain your configuration, and allow it to be portable across platforms. Is it worth the effort to migrate away from shell scripts and dotfiles? I&rsquo;d say so.</p></div><script type=text/javascript src=https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/widget/Widget_2.js></script><script type=text/javascript>kofiwidget2.init("Buy me a coffee","#458588","F1F2S4LWI"),kofiwidget2.draw()</script><section id=comments class=comments><div class='container sep-before'><div class=comments><script>var getTheme=localStorage&&localStorage.getItem("theme")||window.matchMedia&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?"light":"dark",getTheme=getTheme??"dark";let theme=getTheme==="dark"?"gruvbox-dark":"github-light",script=document.createElement("script");script.src="https://utteranc.es/client.js",script.setAttribute("repo","davegallant/site"),script.setAttribute("issue-term","pathname"),script.setAttribute("theme",theme),script.setAttribute("crossorigin","anonymous"),script.setAttribute("async",""),document.querySelector("div.comments").innerHTML="",document.querySelector("div.comments").appendChild(script)</script></div></div></section></article></div><div class=sidebar></div></main><footer><div class=copyright>Dave Gallant</div></footer><script src=/js/main.4be06c129d6a89e60a661c6ac8c8e0434d58fb0fa2f685f85e2c306aca62adc5e77e7c63cb1c8a2cc5794ea42927281cf868514bcdce21ddf23dc3520e6743e7.js></script><script src=/js/flexsearch.83158590074e113b2d2cdd9d9d09ef836de00b3c9aa8f4457637856137b0c70fc7d2f54577d3d5a0ae7cb72f30cad4897a986e03d42330eb181203639bc54125.js></script><script defer src=https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js data-cf-beacon='{"token": "b96799f53f9940dca6f660e6052ba009"}'></script></div></body></html>
+</code></pre><p>You should see another wave of <code>/nix/store/*</code> paths. The new configuration should now be active.</p><p>If you run <code>zsh</code>, you should see that you have <a href=https://starship.rs/ class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>starship</a> and access to several other utils such as <code>rg</code>, <code>fd</code>, and <code>exa</code>.</p><p>This basic configuration above is also defining your <code>~/.config/git/config</code> and <code>.zshrc</code>. If you already have either of these files, home-manager will complain about them already existing.</p><p>If you run <code>cat ~/.zshrc</code>, you will see the way these configuration files are generated.</p><p>You can extend this configuration for programs such as (neo)vim, emacs, alacritty, ssh, etc. To see other programs, take a look at <a href=https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/tree/master/modules/programs class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>home-manager/modules/programs</a>.</p><h2 id=gateway-to-nix>Gateway To Nix<a href=#gateway-to-nix class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h2><p>In ways, home-manager can be seen as a gateway to the nix ecosystem. If you have enjoyed the way you can declare user configuration with home-manager, you may be interested in expanding your configuration to include other system dependencies and configuration. For example, in Linux you can define your entire system&rsquo;s configuration (including the kernel, kernel modules, networking, filesystems, etc) in nix. For macOS, there is <a href=https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>nix-darwin</a> that includes nix modules for configuring launchd, dock, and other preferences and services. You may also want to check out <a href=https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>Nix Flakes</a>: a more recent feature that allows you declare dependencies, and have them automatically pinned and hashed in <code>flake.lock</code>, similar to that of many modern package managers.</p><h2 id=wrapping-up>Wrapping up<a href=#wrapping-up class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h2><p>The title of this post is slightly misleading, since it&rsquo;s possible to retain some of your dotfiles and have them intermingle with home-manager by including them alongside nix. The idea of defining user configuration using nix can provide a clean way to maintain your configuration, and allow it to be portable across platforms. Is it worth the effort to migrate away from shell scripts and dotfiles? I&rsquo;d say so.</p></div><script type=text/javascript src=https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/widget/Widget_2.js></script><script type=text/javascript>kofiwidget2.init("Buy me a coffee","#458588","F1F2S4LWI"),kofiwidget2.draw()</script><section id=comments class=comments><div class='container sep-before'><div class=comments><script>var getTheme=localStorage&&localStorage.getItem("theme")||window.matchMedia&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?"light":"dark",getTheme=getTheme??"dark";let theme=getTheme==="dark"?"gruvbox-dark":"github-light",script=document.createElement("script");script.src="https://utteranc.es/client.js",script.setAttribute("repo","davegallant/site"),script.setAttribute("issue-term","pathname"),script.setAttribute("theme",theme),script.setAttribute("crossorigin","anonymous"),script.setAttribute("async",""),document.querySelector("div.comments").innerHTML="",document.querySelector("div.comments").appendChild(script)</script></div></div></section></article></div><div class=sidebar></div></main><footer><div class=copyright>Dave Gallant</div></footer><script src=/js/main.4be06c129d6a89e60a661c6ac8c8e0434d58fb0fa2f685f85e2c306aca62adc5e77e7c63cb1c8a2cc5794ea42927281cf868514bcdce21ddf23dc3520e6743e7.js></script><script src=/js/flexsearch.1a358ce354b97f3269c903e4c95e58518ed25ce4ab32f1c69e253467195f2a809d73a7058198ae229b845ff7523010cb12fa5470ef4cebbb6c3750907b6a1523.js></script><script defer src=https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js data-cf-beacon='{"token": "b96799f53f9940dca6f660e6052ba009"}'></script></div></body></html>