It uses home-manager to install and create programs configurations based off the home.nix file.
For my non-nixos machines I'm currently using debian apt strictly for the base system, and Nix for all userspace apps.
Make sure nix and home-manager is installed.
$ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
$ nix-channel --update
$ export NIX_PATH = "$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels";
$ nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install
Create a symbolic link of ./config/nixos/hosts/<host>/home.nix at $HOME/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix.
$ ln home.nix $HOME/.config/nixpkgs/home/nix
Run home-manager switch
Handful collection of shell scripts inspired by https://github.com/salman-abedin/alfred
Home manager and flakes with Non-NixOS systems