IDK why the Atuin config file that got generated is commented out in it's entirety and nothing works. Right now I can't be bothered to go trough the entire config and enable things one by one. From what I've tried nothing works and IDK why. CTRL+R does not invoke the Atuin search it still invokes the old one. I uncommented everything and still nothing seems to work. The atuin definitely responds to my commands in terminal though. I did run atuin setup as well.

edit: OK, I've spent another 30min+ on this and I still can't understand why it does not work. I've adjusted config, even got a custom config from other users and I can't seem to be able to invoke it in the terminal besides using it's commands which are the only thing that seem to work. I was able to make an account and login via terminal as well.

edit2: Figured it out! I've tried mcfly and encountered the same issue. Turns out I needed to edit .bashrc which is read only even for sudo and even after chmod. So after beating my head against a wall I’ve realized that .bashrc is symlinked to my home.nix and that's where I need to place my edits. So now mcfly runs fine and I'm assuming Atuin would as well since after looking at github I pretty much had to do the same edit for both.