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• @Suzu@detroitriotcity.com 2026-07-09 01:20

  @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @ceooffuggy@shitpost.cloud yeah. Honestly, I went with home-manager because of my "my repo is 100% nix" obsession, but the more I used it, the more I realized it just adds an unnecessary layer of complexity that makes things harder to visualize and requires home-manager to provide modules to the shit you are using. For instance, I updated Niri to have access to some advanced blur features it got. But I wasn't being able to configure these features declaratively because home-manager didn't expose the needed modules, I had to add another flake from a guy who made a fork and added those modules. It seems that options like nix-maid (https://github.com/viperML/nix-maid), hjem (https://github.com/feel-co/hjem) or even stow (https://medium.com/quick-programming/how-i-use-gnu-stow-to-organize-my-dotfiles-in-git-d3281147e1c8) are simpler options that don't add another layer, you just manage the dotfiles directly.

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