diff --git a/modules/terminal-life/default.nix b/modules/terminal-life/default.nix
index 6bd0312f..39571b48 100644
--- a/modules/terminal-life/default.nix
+++ b/modules/terminal-life/default.nix
@@ -28,16 +28,17 @@ in
     ];
 
     environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+      ack
+      bat
+      exa
+      fd
+      neovim
       screen
     ];
 
     home-manager = with pkgs; pkgs.lib.setAttrByPath [ "users" psCfg.user.name ] {
       home.packages = [
-        ack
         asciinema
-        bat
-        exa
-        fd
         gh
         glow
         nnn
diff --git a/profiles/base-user/session-variables.nix b/profiles/base-user/session-variables.nix
index e922781b..71471c05 100644
--- a/profiles/base-user/session-variables.nix
+++ b/profiles/base-user/session-variables.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@ let
   psCfg = config.pub-solar;
   wlroots = psCfg.graphical.wayland;
   xdg = config.home-manager.users."${psCfg.user.name}".xdg;
-  variables = {
+  globalVariables = {
+    EDITOR = "/run/current-system/sw/bin/nvim";
+    VISUAL = "/run/current-system/sw/bin/nvim";
+
+    # Make sure virsh runs without root
+    LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI = "qemu:///system";
+  };
+  userVariables = {
     XDG_CONFIG_HOME = xdg.configHome;
     XDG_CACHE_HOME = xdg.cacheHome;
     XDG_DATA_HOME = xdg.dataHome;
@@ -18,11 +25,8 @@ let
     SDL_VIDEODRIVER = "wayland";
     WLR_RENDERER = if wlroots.software-renderer.enable then "pixman" else "gles2";
 
-    EDITOR = "/etc/profiles/per-user/${psCfg.user.name}/bin/nvim";
-    VISUAL = "/etc/profiles/per-user/${psCfg.user.name}/bin/nvim";
-
     # fix "xdg-open fork-bomb" your preferred browser from here
-    BROWSER = "${pkgs.firefox-wayland}/bin/firefox";
+    BROWSER = "firefox";
 
     # node
     NODE_REPL_HISTORY = "${xdg.dataHome}/node_repl_history";
@@ -34,9 +38,6 @@ let
     NPM_CONFIG_CACHE = "${xdg.configHome}/npm";
     # TODO: used to be XDG_RUNTIME_DIR NPM_CONFIG_TMP = "/tmp/npm";
 
-    # Make sure virsh runs without root
-    LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI = "qemu:///system";
-
     # wine
     WINEPREFIX = "${xdg.dataHome}/wineprefixes/default";
 
@@ -78,21 +79,21 @@ let
     VUEDX_TELEMETRY = "off";
   };
 
-  envListNames = lib.attrsets.mapAttrsToList (name: value: name) variables;
+  envListNames = lib.attrsets.mapAttrsToList (name: value: name) userVariables;
 
   # Here we merge an extra variable into the attrset called FULL_ENV_LIST.
   # It's a list of the variable names defined above.
   # We can use this to tell `systemctl import-environment` to import the full list above.
-  variablesWithMeta = lib.attrsets.zipAttrsWith (name: values: builtins.head values) [
-    variables
+  userVariablesWithMeta = lib.attrsets.zipAttrsWith (name: values: builtins.head values) [
+    userVariables
     { IMPORT_ENVIRONMENT_ENV_LIST = lib.lists.foldl (a: b: a + " " + b) "IMPORT_ENVIRONMENT_ENV_LIST" envListNames; }
   ];
 in
 {
   home-manager = pkgs.lib.setAttrByPath [ "users" psCfg.user.name ] {
-    home.sessionVariables = variablesWithMeta;
-    systemd.user.sessionVariables = variablesWithMeta;
+    home.sessionVariables = userVariablesWithMeta;
+    systemd.user.sessionVariables = userVariablesWithMeta;
   };
 
-  environment.variables = variablesWithMeta;
+  environment.variables = globalVariables;
 }