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+These are my dotfiles for various machines I use with Nix.
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+Some of machines are standard NixOS, some Darwin + Nix, and some just Nix on a
+different distro where I just need my user configs managed, not the full system.
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+I've settled on using Home Manager to trigger even system-level re-builds just because
+it is quite convenient to do so, as opposed to doing it separately. It is probably
+not the best approach, but it works for me.
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+Having it all be part of the same flake means that I get the same version of software
+on all of these machines, which is nice.
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+I use GNU Stow to manage the Nix, and HM dotfiles themselves.
 ```bash
+# On non-NixOS, you can usually find it in your distro's package manager
+
+# On NixOS, you can do
+# nix-shell -p stow
 stow -v -t ~ nix home-manager
 ```