> Unfortunately, it is quite possible to get difficult to understand errors when working with Home Manager, such as infinite loops with no clear source reference. You should therefore be comfortable using the Nix language and the various tools in the Nix ecosystem. Reading through the Nix Pills document is a good way to familiarize yourself with them.

Thanks, but I’ll just deal with a bunch of dotfiles. This sounds an awful lot like a “and now you have two problems” situation.