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Start by using home-manager in your current environment. Once you can modularize your own config, start building other systems with it. It's a very deep rabbit hole, and starting off as a replacement for managing your own dotfile scripts and the like is a great way to try it out without having to replace whole systems.

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I'd say start even smaller by making a simple `flake.nix` with a devShell output within a project and use it to manage the project's dependencies, that way you're experiencing it within a fairly constrained opt-in environment. Nix is simple when you 'get it' but it can be quite overwhelming for someone new to it, Home-Manager is pretty big and has regions of complexity and while it might be a good candidate for daily driving Nix without running NixOS, IMO it's best to start really small.

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