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by licebmi__at__ 1096 days ago
In my experience, it’s easier to understand everything as a single project with the mind map of flakes. Although it is as you mentioned that a lot of complexity is hidden and can bit you in the ass, like home manager not (necessarily) using the systemwide nixpkgs, yet as a beginners it feels easier to grasp how everything is one big derivation and your home manager config is only a dependency of this derivation.