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@ -143,3 +143,13 @@ Enable 3D acceleration for your virtual machine. Hyprland doesn't work without i
*** It fails installing with some weird errors about grub or a bootloader?
It will 100% fail if you test it with a non-default boot configuration. It might even give this error otherwise! If this is the case, try modifying =bootMountPath= (UEFI) or =grubDevice= (legacy BIOS) in =flake.nix= before installing again.
*** The install seems to work, but when I login, I'm missing a lot of stuff (partial install)
This can happen if you run the autoinstall script on a system that already has a desktop environment, or if any other (non-Nix-store-symlink) config files are in the way of the config files generated by home-manager. In these cases, home-manager refuses to build anything, even if there's just one file in the way. If you try running =nix run home-manager/master -- switch --flake ~/.dotfiles#user=, it should throw an error at the end with something like:
#+begin_example
Existing file '/home/user/.gtkrc-2.0' is in the way of '/nix/store/6p3hzdbzhad8ra5j1qf4b2b3hs6as6sf-home-manager-files/.gtkrc-2.0'
Existing file '/home/user/.config/Trolltech.conf' is in the way of '/nix/store/6p3hzdbzhad8ra5j1qf4b2b3hs6as6sf-home-manager-files/.config/Trolltech.conf'
Existing file '/home/user/.config/user-dirs.conf' is in the way of '/nix/store/6p3hzdbzhad8ra5j1qf4b2b3hs6as6sf-home-manager-files/.config/user-dirs.conf'
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#+end_example
The current solution to this is to delete or move the files mentioned so that home-manager can evaluate. Once the files are out of the way, just run =nix run home-manager/master -- switch --flake ~/.dotfiles#user= again and it should work!