Configuration of nvim on Arch dirivitive

Greetings:
this seems like a very silly question to be asking, however, I am running Manjaro under the new kernel (Manjaro 5.16.0-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 20 15:49:00 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux) from uname -a

I am trying to load a conf file ~/.vimrc to enable some prefs in nvim 0.6.0 and the file is not read, I have looked at Arch wiki and Manjaro forums to see and it loads fine using nvim -u . What am I missing?
Shuld I be uisng an alias to rujn the above command? or is there a way to configure my nvim to look at that file instead of going to global or whatever the thing is doing.

Thanks,
Michael

Neovim reads its config from .config/nvim/init.vim, not ~/.vimrc (so you can run Vim and Neovim independently and in parallel).

Thanks that solves it.