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I'll keep my suggestions small:
Flakes would be cool if they were easier to use/understand. Not sure if the situation has changed but when I tried to use flakes around 2-3 years ago I had a significant uphill battle in finding good documentation that I could parse, so much so that I gave up. Even getting this config to work I had to scour through their default docs, several hundreds of fellow nix user's repos, several different blog posts, and numerous youtube vids. (some apps still don't work, maybe because of Electron? hard to tell)
My previous background was manual Archlinux installs and I felt like I hit a brick wall with NixOS back then, maybe it's better? I'm still adverse but willing to try if someone could point me in a good direction to understand flakes.
This I can definitely tackle👍
I know about Home Manger but I decided not to use it as I remember some incompatibilities with how I initially planned things out, I might have more information on this once I check my documentation.
Either way thanks for your feedback!🫡
If you are just using it as your single computers config, flakes are simpler than not using flakes. And adding multiple inputs becomes easy.
The main reason flakes are confusing is because people who don't know what they are explain them wrong. See here instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCeYq72Sko0