NixOS 25.11 "Xantusia" Ships with GNOME 49, Linux Kernel 6.17
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NixOS 25.11 “Xantusia” ships with GNOME 49, over 7000 new packages, and system updates across the entire Nixpkgs ecosystem.

Six months after the previous 25.05 “Warbler” release, the new stable version, NixOS 25.05 “Xantusia,” is officially here. Targeted at advanced users and developers, NixOS bets on an immutable design and an atomic update model, emphasizing reproducibility and reliability with the Nix package manager.

Nixpkgs adds 7,002 new packages and updates 25,252 existing entries. A cleanup effort removed 6,338 outdated packages to keep the repository manageable and secure. On the NixOS side, the release introduces 107 new modules, adds 1,778 configuration options, and removes older, unused components.

The desktop stack is updated to GNOME 49. This version ends X11 session availability, includes a new video player and document viewer, and ships a redesigned calendar application. Other applications across the GNOME suite receive updates as part of the regular upstream cycle.

  • djsaskdja@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I have a home folder. It’s just empty. To answer your question though, no createHome = true is not in my configuration.nix file. I could dump all that, but this is a fresh system. It’s clearly an issue with the NixOS installer. I tried it on completely different hardware just now and have the same problem. I solved it by running this series of commands.

    xdg-user-dirs-update
    gio set ~/Desktop metadata::custom-icon-name user-desktop
    gio set ~/Documents metadata::custom-icon-name folder-documents
    gio set ~/Downloads metadata::custom-icon-name folder-download
    gio set ~/Music metadata::custom-icon-name folder-music
    gio set ~/Pictures metadata::custom-icon-name folder-pictures
    gio set ~/Videos metadata::custom-icon-name folder-videos
    gio set ~/Templates metadata::custom-icon-name folder-templates
    gio set ~/Public metadata::custom-icon-name folder-publicshare
    xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update

    I guess it’s fine, but not ideal. I could see that confusing the shit out of a more casual user.