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users.users.<name>.packages vs home-manager packages

Is there any practical difference between users.users.default.packages = [ pkgs.foo ]; and home-manager = { users.default = { config, pkgs, nixpkgs, lib, specialArgs, ...
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Which settings of XFCE can be currently configured on NixOS (during build, or afterwards via Home Manager etc.)?

Currently I am trying to create a basic configuration for my NixOS 23.05 installation with the XFCE Desktop and Window Manager. My approach is to use home-manager in standalone-mode to configure the ...
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Conflicting Nix Home Manager packages

I've been using Nix Home Manager to manage packages on Mac OS, and hit a new problem adding ripgrep to home.packages - this has previously been fine. I don't really know what the error means or how to ...
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Can I (install and) use guix-home on a non-Guix Linux distribution?

I'm interested in setting up an environment of apps, libraries and utilities for use - independently and in conjunction - by a non-root user on a GNU/Linux system. Can I use GUIX's "home" ...
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treesitter Neovim plugin not working on nixos

I have installed home-manager in a flake as a module. The Flake and the Module are in /etc/nixos/. My Home manager File links to another file in which I configure neovim, this file is located in /etc/...
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Can't enable home manager in WSL NixOS

I'm trying to setup home manager in NixOS running in WSL. However, it seems my import is not working correctly. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Google and ChatGPT were of no use here. My /etc/nixos/...
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NixOS unable to find binaries/commands/packages installed (globally or locally) by asdf

I recently started to use NixOS 23.05. I'm also using Home Manager (same version). Problem I'm facing is with asdf. I installed it using Home Manager, and everything went fine. I then installed a ...
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