# Where does personal configuration go?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-does-personal-configuration-go/7646
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [June 13, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-does-personal-configuration-go/7646 "2020-06-13T01:27:31Z")
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### Author: ![matklad](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/matklad/32/26467_2.png) [@matklad](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/matklad)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-does-personal-configuration-go/7646/4 "2020-06-13T15:13:22Z")

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I would say that today Nix doesn’t provide a definitive answer to the problem of managing dotfiles, so there isn’t a single recommended approach.

Some people use home-manager, some just configure stuff in ad hoc way, some (like me) use bespoke scripts for syncing dotfiles.

See also this thread: [How do you organize your configuration?](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-do-you-organize-your-configuration/7306)

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