diff --git a/home-manager/home-manager b/home-manager/home-manager
index 7e7f2625f..381b1de0a 100644
--- a/home-manager/home-manager
+++ b/home-manager/home-manager
@@ -43,13 +43,9 @@ function setWorkDir() {
     fi
 }
 
-# Checks whether the 'flakes' and 'nix-command' Nix options are enabled.
+# Check to see if flakes are functionally available.
 function hasFlakeSupport() {
-    type -p nix > /dev/null \
-        && nix show-config 2> /dev/null \
-            | grep experimental-features \
-            | grep flakes \
-            | grep -q nix-command
+    nix eval --expr 'builtins.getFlake' > /dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
 # Attempts to set the HOME_MANAGER_CONFIG global variable.