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+# My NixOS configuration
+
+still very much a WIP
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+## Credits
+
+Thank you to everyone who made their flakes available to the public,
+without them I couldn't have figured out a lot of things on my own. <3
+
+- [isabelroses](https://github.com/isabelroses/dotfiles) for a lot of system configs
+- [NotAShelf](https://github.com/NotAShelf/nyx) 
+- [Aylur](https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles) for a lot of nix stuff but especially AGS and libastal
+- [vimjoyer](https://github.com/vimjoyer) for the amazing tutorials
+
+And everyone else I forgot to mention, y'all are awseome