Suggestion: Update quickstart section in README about dotfiles HOT 3 CLOSED

Yes that's correct. You enter your username as environment variable before the nixos-install command.

The reason for this is that you are executing the nixos-install command as the root user (since you switched to the root user using sudo su - in step 4), but when setting up your system you usually want to also create a non-privileged, normal user as well and this works when you set the environment variable USER=your_user_name (see https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles/blob/master/modules/options.nix#L40-L41)

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I've updated the quickstart instructions in 809ee25 with your suggestions and then some. Thanks for the help!

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What is meant by this?

Install NixOS: USER=<your_user_name_here>

You enter username before nixos-install?

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