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 # Nixos configuration 🐸
 
-This is my default nixos configuration, commonly used on all my
-nixos-enabled computers.
+This is my nixos configuration, commonly used on all my
+nixos-enabled computers **or** nixpkgs-enabled computers.
 
-Thanks to @FaustXVI 👼
+It is heavily customized and uses
+[home-manager](https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/) to manager my
+default user packages and configurations files (a.k.a dotfiles).
 
 ## How to use 🐻
 
+
+## NixOS
+
 When installing nixos:
 
 - clone this repository in `/etc/nixos`
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 - create a `machine/${hostname}.nix` file with the thing you want (look at other ones)
 - run `nixos-generate-configuration` to have the
   `hardware-configuration.nix` generated.
+  
+## On other operating system/distributions
+
+When installing it on a non-nixos operating system, the requirements
+are to have nix installed.
+
+- `curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh` to install it
+- clone the configuration in `$HOME/.config/home-manager`
+- install my customized *home-manager-helper* : 
+  `nix-env -i -f https://github.com/vdemeester/home-manager-helper/archive/master.tar.gz`
+- run `hm` to bootstrap it
+- run `hm build remote-env` to build a dry-run of the `remote-env`,
+  and `hm switch remote-env` to activate it.
+
+The `envs` folder contains different environment either named using
+machine (`wakasu`, `hokkaido`, …) or more generic environment.