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Currently using stow, but in the process of switching to home manager from nix. Syncing via git.
Interesting - can I ask why you prefer home-manager to stow?
It's nice to configure your programs similar to the rest of your system (a lot of programs have modules in home-manager), on the other hand using home-manager always feels somewhat iffy to me because some configurations require root commands to apply your user configuration changes, or you're missing out on certain home-manager features like using global packages I think.
Can't say I'd prefer it yet. Still figuring out how nix works.