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I’m fully invested in Nix/Home Manager, and I use YADM to manage the nix files and other random stuff that isn’t in Home Manager yet or doesn’t fit.

IMO it’s a good fit to use them together. YADM lets me do things like easily setting per-host configurations, encrypting secret files, etc.

My new host setup is to use YADM to pull my dot files, then install nix and run home-manager to install everything else. YADM even supports bootstrapping to automate that for me

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I wrote a little tool that symlinks stuff from your git repo into $HOME.

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/users/lilleca... https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/scripts/uglin...

There's something called mkOutOfStoreSymlink that does this natively, but it makes a symlinks from $HOME -> store -> git repo which annoyed me a bit.

For me getting my home environment up and running is just "FLAKE=$PWD nix run nixpkgs#home-manager -- --flake $FLAKE - - impure"

It's nice to not use "Real home manager" for some kinds of configurations since Nix is pretty slow.

Without more information, that sounds like extra complexity. You can easily do per-host configurations using home-manager. Actually, I consider that one of the perks of the nix based setup, so I'm not sure why I'd want another tool for that.