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Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@khaneliman, @rycee]

65 mentions on Hacker News by 53 people: 3 stories, 62 comments · first 2017-09-08 · latest 2026-04-23

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  1. …the go-to framework is home-manager (not NixOS, which only works on NixOS, or NixOS on WSL 2). https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by one-punch · 2026-04-23 · in Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
  2. I think you are re-inventing the wheel https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by ekropotin · 2026-04-03 · in Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile
  3. …impossible: Symlinks will always point to the read-only Nix store in one way or another. See https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/3514 or one of the countless other tickets on the topic. Through this episode I also learned…
    comment by codethief · 2025-05-27
  4. (Declarative rclone https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/6101 )
    comment by moonlit1 · 2025-01-15 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
  5. …with nix (similar to home-manager[2]) [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-on-droid [2]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by sharperguy · 2024-05-14 · in Turn Your Android Tablet into an IDE with VSCode and Nix
  6. …I have ever done that for). [0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Home-Configuration.... [1] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd [3] https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix [4]…
    comment by Zambyte · 2024-03-13 · in Identifying Software
  7. …management, because ad-hoc appending strings to those rc files is the stuff of nightmares. [0]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by TheDong · 2024-01-23 · in Show HN: Sendenv, a CLI tool to share environment variables
  8. …suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]: nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager [0] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-channel [1]…
    comment by rgoulter · 2023-11-12 · in An Overview of Nix in Practice
  9. …like you'd benefit a lot from Nix/NixOS [1], if not just home-manager[2]. 1. https://nixos.org/ 2. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by turboponyy · 2023-10-01 · in Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
  10. ah the PR is on ongoing https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/4118
    comment by crabpot · 2023-07-09 · in Rio, a new GPU-accelerated terminat that can run natively and in the browser
  11. …https://github.com/myme/dotfiles https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager.git https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-org-configurations.git https://github.com/reckenrode/nixos-configs https://gi
    comment by hackernudes · 2023-06-20 · in My First Impressions of Nix
  12. I've used many different methods but none of them stuck until I started using https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by earthling8118 · 2023-05-07 · in Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”
  13. I'd recommend: 1. Start learning with https://zero-to-nix.com/ 2. Take a look at https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager Good luck!
    comment by grhmc · 2023-02-27 · in The Determinate Nix Installer
  14. You can rollback with plain home-manager: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/do...
    comment by licebmi__at__ · 2023-01-25 · in Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
  15. …I no longer need to rely on hacky shellscripts or remember to manually configure anything. [1]: < https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager > [2]: < https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin >
    comment by OmarAssadi · 2023-01-23 · in Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
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    Home Manager – Manage a user environment using Nix
    story by watusername · 2023-01-10 · 0 comments
  17. …which this "one-size-fits-all repo checked out to root" approach will have some trouble with. [0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by watusername · 2023-01-08 · in Dotfiles Management
  18. …and env vars. Now there is still the $HOME/.config mess, which home-manager[0] tries to tackle. [0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by pongo1231 · 2022-12-22 · in 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
  19. …support is only via WSL, so this might be a non-starter for you. [1]: https://nixos.org/ [2]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by allanbreyes · 2022-11-19 · in Ask HN: Any pain points worth building an MVP for?
  20. …by the fact that home-manager currently doesn't work properly with the new flake based profiles ( https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/2848 ).
    comment by sullyj3 · 2022-10-24 · in Coming Home to Vim (2010)
  21. …then home-manager will create and manage them (typically they live in `$HOME/.config/whatever`). https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager . Some examples on GitHub: https://github.com/search?q=filename%3Ahome.nix .
    comment by leoh · 2022-10-24 · in Dotfile madness (2019)
  22. …no one has mentioned nix home manager, which deals with dotfiles in an incredibly elegant way. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by leoh · 2022-10-24 · in Dotfile madness (2019)
  23. …of my local environment replicated required significant effort. - CI: github actions [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [2]: https://github.com/numtide/devshell [3]: https://flix.dev [4]: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima…
    comment by nvln · 2022-09-21 · in Ask HN: MacBook M1 development workflow?
  24. …working great for everything including support for VSCode dev container dotfiles setup[2]. [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [2]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers#_person...
    comment by nvln · 2022-08-29 · in Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub
  25. Yeah, if you use a module system like Nix-Darwin or Home Manager: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/1341#is... (Hopefully comparable modules are on their way onto the defaults for each of those module systems)
    comment by pxc · 2022-08-06 · in Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
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    Nix Home Manager – Words of Warning
    story by auraham · 2022-06-03 · 0 comments
  27. …line applications you want to have available on all you machines then take a look at home-manager. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager I use it on NixOS. It should absolutely work on other distros unfortunately I don't have any…
    comment by mschwaig · 2022-05-30 · in A decade of dotfiles
  28. …reproducible, manages packages, and is very composable. Using the nix package manager and https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager this should work on other Linux distributions, MacOS, and even Windows Subsystem for Linux. Although I…
    comment by ryangibb · 2022-05-26 · in Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?
  29. …so integration with Emacs is reproducible and up-to-date across any distro, including Debian. [0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [1] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles/blob/bad2e8a29b6622e10bc...
    comment by siraben · 2022-04-28 · in Using LSP in Emacs and Debian
  30. …is usable outside of NixOS and, in my opinion, it is better than most dotfiles managers. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager 2. In NixOS /etc is composed in the same way from the system derivation. 3. Outside of NixOS, I think,…
    comment by maxxk · 2022-04-24 · in How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect
  31. …I could certainly see a more user-friendly distro being released using Nix as the foundation. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [2] https://github.com/divnix/devos
    comment by KingMachiavelli · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come
  32. …Tried Homebrew and it worked like a charm. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903 [2] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/2266
    comment by zekrioca · 2022-02-02 · in Containers are not just for Kubernetes
  33. > The configuration.nix "defines" the whole system, but obviously doesn't touch anything in /home https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager > or /var, so that's on you to back up, migrate, whatever.…
    comment by throwamon · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS
  34. …a bunch of config changes. I then synced those changes over to my personal machine with https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager . C.f. my phone just died, and I got a new android, and the android backup/sync situation gets worse and…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-12-04 · in Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix
  35. Unfortunately not public, but what I use is home manager, you can check it out here https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager . There is also chance that other people have it publically
    comment by vasergen · 2021-10-15 · in Ubuntu 21.10
  36. …everything and make it more polished. I'm afraid Nix will continue to remain very niche. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [2] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
    comment by the_duke · 2021-09-15 · in Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentalized Linux
  37. …at home-manager, it's essentially NixOS but for any linux distro, or even darwin with nix-darwin. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by jonringer117 · 2021-07-14 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
  38. …2: https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay#quickstart 3: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/ov... 4: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/de...
    comment by pxc · 2021-06-03 · in NixOS 21.05
  39. …5: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-office-hours/11945 6: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin 7: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager 8: https://search.nixos.org/packages
    comment by pxc · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05
  40. …to home-manager [1], which is amazing for declarative user environments [1] nixos.org/ [2] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by the_duke · 2021-05-12 · in Guix 1.3
  41. …home-manager, a module system like NixOS which adds support for systemd user services on non-NixOS: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager • nix-processmgmt, an experimental Nix framework for writing Nix expressions to describe…
    comment by pxc · 2021-04-21 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back
  42. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager is much more than that, but it can be easily used as a basic dotfiles manager the way you described it
    comment by seniorivn · 2021-04-19 · in Ask HN: Dotfiles Management Tools?
  43. …+ home-manager as best of both worlds—declarative when feasible, imperative when convenient. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by tbenst · 2021-01-10 · in NixOS Linux
  44. …in my dotfiles[1] especially so that my setup still works on systems without Nix installed. [0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [1] https://github.com/siraben/dotfiles
    comment by siraben · 2020-12-29 · in Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
  45. Interesting! https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager uses Nix to solve this problem. It adds reproducibility and rollbacks but with the cost of learning the Nix DSL.
    comment by Kototama · 2020-12-28 · in Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
  46. …nice way to manage your config files and user packages even if you’re not on a NixOS system. [1]. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by onlydnaq · 2020-12-16 · in I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
  47. …is a respectable ideological choice, but really reduces usability a lot compared to nixpkgs. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by the_duke · 2020-11-23 · in GNU Guix 1.2.0
  48. …between the two. [1]: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/modules/syste... [2]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/mo...
    comment by soraminazuki · 2020-11-19 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon
  49. …stable and featureful the ecosystem has become, despite being somewhat of a niche "product". [1] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
    comment by the_duke · 2020-10-16 · in NixCon Live
  50. …with a new generation being created each time they modify their declarative config files. [0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager [1] https://www.nmattia.com/posts/2018-03-21-nix-reproducible-se...
    comment by wesnel · 2020-09-29 · in Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1