Fleek - User friendly home-manager

[srid]

@max

A potentially useful thing that Fleek could have done is serve as a “getting started” tool for home-manager, as in let the user interactively pick some basic preferences, then generate a nicely extensible home-manager config in a flake and hand that to the user for further editing.

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and thus made a start with nixos-flake and nix-dev-home. The “let the user interactively pick some basic preferences” part can be facilitated by enabling nix flake template to take in parameters: Feature request: Flake templates with variables · Issue #4017 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

I appreciate projects like fleek, and I like the motivation and idea behind them (enable use of the Nix ecosystem but using a friendly UX), but I’d also like to be able to write Nix itself. Surely there must be a way to use a subset of Nix to provide that friendly UX?