home-manager

A tutorial series on home-manager,

If you use home-manager, both nix-direnv and starship can be installed using the following configuration:

[!tip] Newcomer Tip If you have never used home-manager before, we recommend that you set it up by following the instrutions at https://github.com/juspay/nixos-unified-template (which is based on nixos-unified, thus works on macOS and Linux).

Sridhar Ratnakumar will demonstrate using Nix to declaratively manage your dotfiles, programs and services using home-manager, thus replacing the likes of legacy software like homebrew. The goal is to create an one-click environment to setup an user environment on any system, be it a Macbook or a Linux machine.

When using home-manager, you can add the following to your programs.git module:

Whethere you are on macOS or NixOS, you can install and setup fonts in an unified fashion with Nix using home-manager.

Git can be declaratively configured in Nix via home-manager. Here is an example: