README.md: emphasize that users are profiles

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@ -119,10 +119,14 @@ you include it in the list defined in [profiles/default.nix](profiles/default.ni
it will be available to other flakes via `nixosModules.profiles`. it will be available to other flakes via `nixosModules.profiles`.
## Users ## Users
User declaration belongs in the `users` directory. Everything related to User declarations belong in the `users` directory, created on entering `nix-shell`.
your user should be declared here. For convenience, [home-manager][home-manager] These are actually just a special case of [profiles](#profiles). Any profile that
is available automatically for home directory setup and should only be used makes a declaration defining, or referencing a specific interactive user or uid
from this directory. belongs in here. That way profiles stay general, and all our idiosyncratic data
has a clean home.
For convenience, [home-manager][home-manager] is available automatically for
home directory setup and should only be used from this directory.
## Lib ## Lib
The [lib](lib) directory contains a file `utils.nix` which is an attribute set The [lib](lib) directory contains a file `utils.nix` which is an attribute set