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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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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