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date: "2024-02-04T18:39:00.000Z"
title: "2024-02-04"
tags: ["macos","nix","home-manager"]
draft: false
---

I pivoted to using home-manager using the [standalone installation](https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.xhtml#sec-install-standalone).
It seems to provide a reasonable starting point and a found a fair bit of prior art when searching Github, so my hope was there would be good examples to model off of.
It took me a frustrating time to realize after running `home-manager switch` that only some changes took effect immediately.
Knowing this probably would have saved me an hour and could have possibly solved a number of my problems from yesterday as well -- I don't have a quick way to check.