install home manager and add home.nix

flake.nix

@@ -1,13 +1,30 @@
 {
   description = "Alex's super mega awesome nixos config";
 
-  inputs.nixpkgs.url = github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-23.05;
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-23.05;
+    home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
+    home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; 
+  };
 
-  outputs = { self, nixpkgs }@attrs: {
+  outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, ... }@attrs: {
     nixosConfigurations.nixos76 = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
       system = "x86_64-linux";
       specialArgs = attrs;
-      modules = [ ./configuration.nix ];
+      modules = [
+         ./configuration.nix 
+         home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
+          {
+            home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
+            home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
+            home-manager.users.alex = import ./home.nix;
+
+            # Optionally, use home-manager.extraSpecialArgs to pass
+            # arguments to home.nix
+          }
+
+         ]
+         ;
     };
   };
 }

home.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  # Home Manager needs a bit of information about you and the
+  # paths it should manage.
+  home.username = "alex";
+  home.homeDirectory = "/home/alex";
+
+    # Packages that should be installed to the user profile.
+  home.packages = [                               
+
+
+    pkgs.htop
+    pkgs.nixpkgs-fmt
+  ];
+
+  # This value determines the Home Manager release that your
+  # configuration is compatible with. This helps avoid breakage
+  # when a new Home Manager release introduces backwards
+  # incompatible changes.
+  #
+  # You can update Home Manager without changing this value. See
+  # the Home Manager release notes for a list of state version
+  # changes in each release.
+  home.stateVersion = "23.05";
+
+  # Let Home Manager install and manage itself.
+  programs.home-manager.enable = true;
+}