# Nix with Home Manager

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Nix with Home Manager and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for managing dotfiles and dev configuration declaratively, and say it is useful day to day and works well over years of use.

## Why people recommend it

- Shared config across many hosts (1 comments): "my flake contains 8 other NixOS hosts with common home-manager config" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721427))
- Enough as a dotfile manager (1 comments): "other dotfile managers including Nix with Home Manager will suffice. I do, so they won't." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598613))
- Useful in everyday use (1 comments): "genuinely useful in my day to day, and I can’t recommend it enough" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623317))
- Used for years without issues (1 comments): "I've used this set up for 3 or 4 years now and love it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721326))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Home Manager](https://hackerapproved.com/p/home-manager.md): 31 recommend
- [chezmoi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chezmoi.md): 21 recommend
- [GNU Stow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gnu-stow.md): 14 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nix with Home Manager", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nix-with-home-manager/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).