04:48 <mnoronha> I'm trying to change shells to zsh with homemanager by setting programs.zsh.enable = true, but nothing is changing. Are there any docs I can read somewhere?

06:57 <rycee> mnoronha: For the shells you have to also make a system configuration change. Specifically to change your user's login shell.

11:29 <lem0n> Hi

11:33 <lem0n> Umm, I just installed nixos and downloaded window manager, firefox and vim etc. Just barebones. I am migrating from arch linux and I have a couple of dotfiles that I want to use. I want to use home-manager but I have a couple of questions. In the installation section of readme, it says add a channel to use home manager. But home-manager can be seen in nixpkgs repo. Should I add it anyways or directly install it from systemPacka

11:36 <lem0n> And can I directly use home-manager in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix or should I go with ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix as it says in readme. I am trying to collect all my system config in one file.

11:51 <pie_> it *is* possible to use it via configuration.nix but i havent kept up with the state of things so idk what the current situation is. there is a github issue from some point describing how to do it i think

11:52 <rycee> lem0n: It doesn't matter very much whether you use HM from the HM channel or Nixpkgs, the package in Nixpkgs is not updated very frequently so might be missing the latest features.

11:53 <rycee> lem0n: And you can use either the standalone version or the HM module, it just depends on what you prefer.

11:53 <rycee> The installation instructions for both are here: https://rycee.gitlab.io/home-manager/index.html#ch-installation

11:54 <lem0n> Thank you, i will look into it.