Per-user profiles not created when $HOME mounted on NFS

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home-manager documents the step to create the user profiles as well as per user gcroots as a manual process when not on nixOS.

Make sure you have a working Nix installation. If you are not using NixOS then you may here have to run

$ mkdir -m 0755 -p /nix/var/nix/{profiles,gcroots}/per-user/$USER

since Home Manager uses these directories to manage your profile generations. On NixOS these should already be available.

Still they were already available when I installed home-manager on my Arch Linux with Nix.

Perhaps it helps to create/adjust folders and permissions?

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