Nix Home Manager Tutorial

In this video we are going to learn about Home Manager - a program that allows you to not only keep your .dotfiles but also the programs themselves in sync across all of your devices by leveraging the power of Nix!

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The commit is here: https://github.com/agilesteel/.dotfiles/tree/7a99f9e97e444efbb9c65548861a896f0f4e9d44 The raw files from that commit are here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agilesteel/.dotfiles/7a99f9e97e444efbb9c65548861a896f0f4e9d44/nix/home-manager/flake.nix https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agilesteel/.dotfiles/7a99f9e97e444efbb9c65548861a896f0f4e9d44/nix/home-manager/home.nix

The fix for the sudo installer: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installing-home-manager-on-ubuntu/25957/8 The Nix Flake for Scala is here: https://github.com/devinsideyou/scala-seed My dotfiles are here: https://dotfiles.devinsideyou.com

This is how you can see a diff between the last 2 generations:

home-manager generations | head -n 2 | tac | cut -d " " -f 7 | xargs nix store diff-closures

You can also use a separate tool called nvd to do this:

home-manager generations | head -n 2 | tac | cut -d " " -f 7 | xargs nvd diff

00:00 Intro 01:08 What is Nix? 02:04 What is Nix Home Manager? 02:40 Why use Nix Home Manager? 03:22 The best way to learn Nix 05:58 Nix Home Manager with Flakes Installation Instructions 10:08 Nix Home Manager with Flakes Installation Demo 21:07 Nix Home Manager commands and aliases 22:37 How YOU can get started with the Nix Home Manager 28:21 The Nix Language 40:22 Outro

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