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Home Manager using Nix for User Environment

Simplify your user environment with Home Manager, a declarative customizer for user shell and system settings

Key points:

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Declarative Configuration: Provides a basic system for managing user environment using Nix package manager and Nix libraries
  • ๐Ÿค Open Source: Licensed under MIT license, open for contributions and modifications
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Cross-Platform Support: Supports multiple Linux distributions and NixOS versions
  • ๐Ÿšจ Note of Caution: May cause difficult to understand errors for users unfamiliar with Nix language and tools
  • ๐Ÿ’ป Different Usage Options: Can be used as a standalone `home-manager` tool, or as a module within NixOS and nix-darwin system configuration

Read more at: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

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