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# Users
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Users are a special case of [profiles](profiles.md) that define system
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users and [home-manager][home-manager] configurations. For your convenience,
home manager is wired in by default so all you have to worry about is declaring
your users. For a fully fleshed out example, check out the developers personal
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[branch](https://github.com/divnix/devos/tree/nrd/users/nrd/default.nix).
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## Basic Usage
`users/myuser/default.nix`:
```nix
{ ... }:
{
users.users.myuser = {
isNormalUser = true;
};
home-manager.users.myuser = {
programs.mpv.enable = true;
};
}
```
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## Home Manager
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Home Manager support follows the same principles as regular nixos configurations,
it even gets its own namespace in your `flake.nix` as `home`.
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All modules defined in [user modules][modules-list] will be imported to
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Home Manager.
User profiles can be collected in a similar fashion as system ones into a `suites`
argument that gets passed to your home-manager users.
### Example
```nix
{
home-manager.users.nixos = { suites, ... }: {
imports = suites.base;
};
}
```
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## External Usage
You can easily use the defined home-manager configurations outside of NixOS
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using the `homeConfigurations` flake output. The [flk](../flk/index.md) helper
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script makes this even easier.
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This is great for keeping your environment consistent across Unix systems,
including OSX.
### From within the projects devshell:
```sh
# builds the nixos user defined in the NixOS host
flk home NixOS nixos
# build and activate
flk home NixOS nixos switch
```
### Manually from outside the project:
```sh
# build
nix build "github:divnix/devos#homeConfigurations.nixos@NixOS.home.activationPackage"
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# activate
./result/activate && unlink result
```
[home-manager]: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager
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[modules-list]: https://github.com/divnix/devos/tree/core/users/modules/module-list.nix