Getting Started

Enable flakes

Flakes as a experimental feature needs to be enabled by adding following config:

echo 'experimental-features = nix-command flakes' >> /etc/nix/nix.conf

Then optionally restart nix to make sure it works

sudo systemctl restart nix-daemon.service

Initialize configuration

To use unstable version of NixPkgs, use:

nix run home-manager/master -- init --switch

To use specific version of NixPkgs, use:

nix run home-manager/release-24.05 -- init --switch

This step generates flake.nix, flake.lock and home.nix under ~/.config/home-manager/

$ ls ~/.config/home-manager/
flake.lock  flake.nix  home.nix