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What's the point of a user config if they can't change it themselves?
With NixOS you can install packages as a user without asking root, just don't expect it to affect anything on the base system level, or for other users.
Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean. Can you be more specific?
If you want something installed or configured system-wide, you do it in
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix. Then, as a user of the system (or donning your user hat) you have your own configuration, local to$HOME.Merging those would be rather pointless because the user can't do that themselves, they'd have to ask
rootevery time they change something.But that all said you might be looking for home manager.
Ah, got it. In that sense yes, but I'd like there to be a way to "push"current user configuration to the system wide one. How do you arrive at a good system wide configuration? By testing a cofiguration as a user and then deciding what works and what not, adjusting it and arriving at a result that you want now as a system wide.
In practice my system configuration is quite minimal, everything that can be installed as a user I install as user. It provides a login screen and DE selection menu (which only contains kde), a couple of daemons, such things, I literally don't touch that files for months and months on end.