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bronze dagger Jul 26, 2023, 5:07 PM

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Is there any way to use nix with multiple users in vanilla?

Just realised that installing nix on my second user just uninstalled nix for my first user.

frank scroll Jul 26, 2023, 5:33 PM

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Sadly no

bronze dagger Jul 26, 2023, 7:45 PM

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:c

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That's very unfortunate. But well, I guess I'll just install Firefox as a Flatpak in one and as nix in the other then

frank scroll Jul 26, 2023, 7:46 PM

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or you install guix for the other user 🧠

bronze dagger Jul 26, 2023, 8:03 PM

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Hmm, I might take a look at it at some point

tidal schooner Jul 28, 2023, 8:22 AM

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Is /nix mounted to /home/$USER/ instead of /var/nix or something? If it was the latter, then each users can have their own home-manager or something

bronze dagger Jul 28, 2023, 8:24 AM

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tidal schooner Is `/nix` mounted to `/home/$USER/` instead of `/var/nix` or something? If it wa...

It was mounted in /var/nix

tidal schooner Jul 28, 2023, 8:24 AM

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In that case then you should be able to use use home-manager to make a per-user setup?

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The other alternative is to use system-manager, and define a different output for each users in flakes

bronze dagger Jul 28, 2023, 8:28 AM

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tidal schooner In that case then you should be able to use use home-manager to make a per-user ...

Ok, how? Using apx init --nix just somehow broke nix on the other user. (I assume because it overwrote the systemd service)

tidal schooner Jul 28, 2023, 8:43 AM

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I'm not currently on Vanilla OS (still waiting for Orchid) so I can't really check, but presumably after you've done the initial init process for nix, you should be able to just follow the home-manager init process for each users: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html#sec-install-standalone

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