nixos/tips/home_manager.md

Home Manager on others distros

Install home-manager

1. Add nixpkgs and home-manager channels

nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
nix-channel --update

2. Install home-manager

export NIX_PATH=$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels${NIX_PATH:+:$NIX_PATH}
nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install

How use home-manager

1. Switch

home-manager switch --flake .#perso-home

2. List generations

home-manager generations