Manage Your Dotfiles with Home Manager! 

I rarely comment on videos but i really had to say this. I've been following your NixOS tutorials and i've gotta say they are so on point. There is something about your voice that makes your videos very relaxing to watch. Keep it up.

I have watched many other people's youtube videos regarding NixOS tutorials, the things they provided do work, but only stops at "working". Your videos are the exact ones I needed for me to truly UNDERSTAND everything in it. Everything is explained in detail just like the tutorials we have on other more popular distros. You are my Nix hero bro.

This is great stuff. I've tried to watch quite a few vids on Nix that show how to configure and maintain a NixOS system the Nix way and they were always kinda vague or extremely long. Your video series on Nix is really well structured and to the point. This helped a lot, thank you.

thanks much; the key for me was to stay in ~/.dotfiles while setting up and not wander around in the system changing the current directory and messing up your good instructions.

Nix is truly the end game of Linux system management

I looked everywhere for these types of videos and they are fantastic. I did flakes and home-manager and going to go through the rest tomorrow - thank you!!!

I much prefer your walkthrough style of tutorial to other channels and your videos are making starting with nixOS so much easier

Please make a video covering stylix and how to correctly theme neovim and other common applications with it.

Very good video. I actually have set up home manager as a submodule and i am missing the home-manager command so i consider redoing it this way.

Awesome tutorial! I followed it all the way through. Excited for the next part on modular systems. 😃

This is an A class tutorial on all levels. Thanks man.

I have been trying to follow many guides. Yours is by far the easiest and best explained. By a long shot too.

I love your videos.. Very clear, detailed presented in a nice way.. Also think your written documentation is top notch!!! Very nice.. !!!!!

Really good video 🎉Right pace, good amount of details. Lot of good tips.

Big thankyou Phoenix. I found this very helpful :D

You make an amazing teacher for a complex topic!

jfc youtube should've just sent me here directly, I've gone through so many videos of people explaining this in the most pretentious and tedious way possible lol I was actually able to understand this.

Another excellent tutorial. Impatiently waiting for the Neovim config tutorial. Thanks

I have to say Emmet, these tutorials are extremely appreciated. You are pitching it for those of us without a strong IT background. Brilliant

@librepheonix Not sure if you'll see this but IMHO it might help to bring more attention to the fact that you have an entire written version of these vids on your blog, those are immensely helpful as someone who learns differently but I didn't find them until I nearly finished taking notes on the video lol. Hope you have a great day! :)

RIGHT!!! 😂 INDEED!!! YOU SAID IT, DUDE. Definitely a daunting task to migrate all the umpteen pickiune options that are specified in decades of dotfiles. I'll be working on this for the next month. 😂😂😂

I have been a Linux Sysadmin for a while and the concept of Nix blew my mind, I'd like to see a tutorial on nixvim and the diferences explained with for example NVChad or Kickstart.

Awesome content :) Recently got into NixOS and it's absolutly amazing. Looking to achieve a modular flake and hm setup where I can define X user on X machine running X desktop/compositor/or-none on X architecture. Then I could manage wifes laptop, various rpi's, my laptop and so on-really looking forward to the next step of the series!

Your videos are awesome, really well structured and explained. thanks a ton!

Thanks for these amazingly helpful tutorials. My mind is blown...it's like Terraform for your desktop! Declarative everything! Use git to see every change you ever made to your system and be able to roll it back to any state at any time! 🤯🤯🤯 Only thing is, it seems to break a bit of the beauty and purity of that now that I have a whole dir full of config files instead of just two and like 3 different commands I have to run to sync everything with my system. Oh well.

you are amazing dude, I finally begin to understand more about nix

Thank you sooo much for the efforts you have put in..

Thanks for your videos, they are very helpful! I'd be interested in configuration of neovim and awesomewm using home manager.

Yes, please do module setup. Also how to setup up hyprland and wayland with kde plasma 6

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Really appreciated rhis video coupled with the flake one. A must view videos for nixos users

nix seems to be perfect for cloud based servers to deploy services on standardized OS configured systems as a replacement for something like Ansible

Great video, really well paced and thought out - thanks for taking the time to explain things clearly. One question regarding variable substitution in the let binding - how to you structure multiple substitutions? 🤔

Great video! Very helpful. I think I’ll switch from home-manager module to standalone from this.

Amazing! Maybe a video on setting up a homelab/ NAS with multimedia applications such as Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Bittorrent etc?

Thank you for very clear explanations ! I was looking for introduce flake on my nixos system with home manager

Damn your channel finally made me understand what flakes are. Btw i have a question. Am I the only one that have problem with having system config files in random folder in user directory? That looks strange to me.

5:20 - start 17:37 - nix flake update 30:15 - home-manager generations

5:16 did you make nixos module homemanager video?

Getting error flake 'path:/home/.../.dotfiles' does not provide attribute.. And then goes on to list legacy pkgs the system config and others... very helpfully otherwise.

awesome

I really like your content as I am so intrigued by what Nix brings to the table. I just have one issue: after following your guides getting home manager to run I am not able to install unfree software

I am using this to set up fish but the symlinks created from home.files are owned by root for some reason. I can't seem to fix this and fish won't work :( my setup is basically the same as this video and im running all the same commands, the only difference is adding fish and its configs

"Thank you for the easy-to-understand video. I would like to learn about the configuration and use of Hyprland desktop and its related tools. For example, tools related to network connections, screen brightness control, and so on. I'm new to using a tiling desktop, and all of this customization has been quite challenging for me."

I am new to nixos I have got the config set up but I am unable to share my screen on google meet I am using hyprland can you or anyone help out? really helpful video

Hello! Nice video, but I have a question. if in configuration.nix we tell that we use zsh, and home.nix have settings for zsh, so home-manager will apply that settings for selected zsh shell, that was selected in configuration.nix ? Otherwise, if we select bash in configuration.nix, but home-manager(home.nix) have no settings for it, default settings are applyed to selected bash shell, am i correct ?

what is the font used? i cant find it in your configurations

hi! great and easy to follow video! can you do a hyprland and an emacs nixos config videos please? :)

Superb production quality. Which editor u use? How have u set it up? Which mono fonts are u using? Maybe a video about it?

why is it not shellAliases = ${myAliases} with a $ sign?

I'm just learning here, but I'm pretty sure your flake.lock was owned by root because in the previous tutorial you ran sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake . and created the lock file with sudo. In that video you mentioned updating the lockfile with nix flake update (no sudo) but you didn't actually run the command. I'm betting that would've given you the same permissions error. Unless I'm missing something, this seems like an issue with this method for home manager.

Is it possible to import plain text multi directory configs to ease transition? My neovim config is rather modular :D

I was trying to replicate what you did. as far as i understand you made an unnecessary change of the owner of the flake. that's because that flake should be used in system updates. flake flag in home manager is for when you install home-manager configuration as a flake (separately). this installation works with default .config/home-manager directory. when you combine home.nix and your system flake, you can do this instead: update home configs by doing home-manager switch -f home.nix while in .dotfiles and do sudo nixos-rebuild --flake . to rebuild the entire system

if I already have the home-manager installed as a nixos module, is there any actual advantage worth the hassle of figuring out how to move to standalone (I'm a nixos noob trying to figure my way around)?

You get my subscription simply for (correctly) referring to directories as such.

I would love to see the correct way to implement something like neovim using a vim plugin manager like lazy.nvim as previously that was always a sticking point with me trying to use nixos. I couldn't figure out the correct way to get the neovim plugin manager and its file creation to play well with nixos for some reason. This caused weird behavior like the plugin manager trying to reinstall my plugins and config every time I would open neovim. I am sure it had something to do with my setup and lack of NixOS comfort. I also never could get the configuration options that the nix neovim pkgs offered to be fine tuned enough like my regular neovim dotfiles. Thank you for taking the time to produce the amazing content. Outside of the aforementioned editor config video suggestion, setting up coding environments via nix-shell could be good videos (eg. a nix-shell file to setup postgres db with some programming language etc)

Really nice video, keep it up! Can you please make a video with you doom emacs overlay? Thanks so much!

Thx for the very interesting and helpful video! One question: what are the advantages of specifying the dotconfigs of programs such as bash with programs.bash.shellAliases (for example) vs using the home.file."~/.bashrc" method?

Are flakes just for putting our configuration.nix to it for version control? I have seen people installing stuff too but only few packages are put into flakes rest of it are in the normal configuration file. I don't understand that part.

Hi, can this keep track of my fish shell universal (set -Ux command) environment variables? I use fish as my default shell.

Good video.

Maybe a video on how to migrate from configuration.nix to flakes? I think it would also demonstrate how similar they are.

Pls share that sexy wallpaper. Thanks ❤

"If you are unstable like meee"

neovim and hyprland plzzz make

I can install unfree software in environment.systempackages in my configuration.nix, but I get an error when I try to install unfree software in home.packages in home.nix. How can i fix this?

That home.file. .. source would be super useful, too bad that doesn't work either :) " error: Failed assertions: - Conflicting managed target files: .config/hypr/hyprland.conf This may happen, for example, if you have a configuration similar to home.file = { conflict1 = { source = ./foo.nix; target = "baz"; }; conflict2 = { source = ./bar.nix; target = "baz"; }; }" And it for sure is not defined anywhere else.

Great content! Getting finally a grasp on NixOS

+1 for a tutorial on managing a neovim config! You are so gifted at teaching~ I hope to see more!!

Hyprland desktop managed by NixOS config would be great

nice video. I’m new to nixos and didn’t really understand the value of Home Manager. This video helped me a lot, thanks!.

Thank you for making this video. I'm curious what you're using in emacs to show the tree for the Nix files at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IiyBeR-Guqw.htmlsi=IB7a7j_NriCgkOLa&t=724 ?

It feels weird to run commands to install home-manager. Edit: Yea, i should probably watch the video to the end before posting any comments :D

Thank you so much! This helped my understanding Please keep it up.

After playing with the idea of NixOS in the back of my mind for months, I finally decided to dive in tonight on a spare laptop. These tutorials have been incredibly useful at getting started fairly quickly and confidently. Already loving the rollback feature as I bumble my way through figuring certain things out myself. And looking forward to actually learning the Nix language and migrating my entire dotfiles tomorrow!

I would really appreciate a tutorial for the NixOS module installation of home manager. :)

Everyone who is 27:19 deep into a video like this is a nerd obviously

Thanks librocode

A followup I'd like to see, is how this bootstrapping affects portability. I like the idea of not needing root to update home-manager, but then if I need to quickly get up and running on a new machine, then it seems like I can't just copy my dotfiles and rebuild. I have to insert this bootstrapping step too.

Fantastic guide... I think the blog post contains a few screenshots of the flake that are in accurate and not incuding the home-manager definition in the outputs = { self, nixpkgs, ... }: statement... Like : outputs = { self, nixpkgs, home-manager... }: Unless I'm smoking something really bad :)

on my system where my configuration.nix sits in ~/.config/nixos and I symlink it to /etc/nixos the command `home-manager switch --flake .` failed complaining about not getting status of my home.nix, no such file.. I was able to solve it first nix flake update then `sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .` and finaly just a normal `home-manager switch` without the --flake worked. Not sure why I was looking through the documentation for home-manager to figure it out as well.

Really good content! Just the right balance of detail, without e.g. the tedium of going through installs over and over. Also very well paced. Again, you’ve hit the Goldilocks between tedium and wtf just happened. Keep up the good work!

Is there a more ergonomic way of updating? What I get from this is, if you want to update your packages you have to: 1. Update the flake.lock 2. Rebuild the system 3. Switch to a new home-manager generation That's three fairly long commands just to update...

showing how to customize developer apps like Android Studio or IntelliJ Ultimate IDEA in home manager would be great

I managed to setup some of my .config files with the home.file stuff, but I'm wondering how would I for example install something like nvchad via home-manager? Copy all the files it creates on install to my nix folder and then use the home.file.*.source function? I don't feel like thats a good solution? Couldn't I idk like run a command to install something or idk clone a git repo or something from within home-manager? I feel like I'm missing something

Can this be made in other OS that are not nixOS?

Awesome Video! Love the way you explain things. Very easy to follow. I would like to see a video of setting up Hyprland with home-manager. Coming from you will be great to follow. Thank You in advance!

After this one I would like to see an equal nice explanation how to modularise the configuration. In any way, thanks!

can you make a short video on bashrc and zshrc file in combination with home-manager

finally something understandable and pretty much exactly what i was looking for. thanks!

looking forward to the video explaining home manager as a module

Thank you for concise bare-bones videos! So appreciated!

Why not use home manager as a flake?

Great video! Btw can you share your prompt config? Looks great, if that's starship

That's really great! How many episodes will there be in this series?

Great tutorial - makes home-manager on NixOS make since however I would like to understand any differences in the set up to allow me to take my home-manager configuration to another OS and use it with just NIX package manager so I can take my environment with me when not using NixOS

Great video! Can you explain how to have multiple WMs? I want to install hyprland, alongside KDE before completely switching.

Loooooove your helpful tutorials. I would love to see you do a video on setting up servers. Like 2 VMs both with Nix, when they boot each get their own functions. Not sure this makes sense... Thanks for your hard work on these.

I love that background. I tried searching but I couldn't find it. What's the name of that wallpaper?

@9:17 "how to incorporate into the .dotfiles directory that we started last time" -> You could add one of those badges with a link to your previous video at this point. Would be helpful for the viewer and also the channel.