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 ## Other variables
 
-Some features can only be accessed by environment variables, here is a list of these features:
+Some features can only be accessed by minikube specific environment variables, here is a list of these features:
 
-* **MINIKUBE_HOME** - (string) sets the path for the .minikube directory that minikube uses for state/configuration
+* **MINIKUBE_HOME** - (string) sets the path for the .minikube directory that minikube uses for state/configuration. *Please note: this is used only by minikube and does not affect anything related to Kubernetes tools such as kubectl.*
 
 * **MINIKUBE_IN_STYLE** - (bool) manually sets whether or not emoji and colors should appear in minikube. Set to false or 0 to disable this feature, true or 1 to force it to be turned on.