How’s this Installation stuck at 49% still an issue? I’ve seen a few threads about it and it seems to be an issue since November 2022, it’s close to 3 years since and it’s still an issue, I would assume the community would dig into fixing this faster since it’s a big barrier of entry to the NixOS ecosystem.
I have successfully installed NixOS in my laptop but in my desktop PC it keeps getting stuck, CPU, RAM and Network flatlines (meaning no usage at all), sometimes instead of just the slides passing through, it literally freezes and I have to hard restart the PC, I tried to use the installer from Gnome, Plasma, with the LTS kernel and the more recent one, tried installing alongside windows, and tried to install on my second M2 drive, as well as another NVMe drive, even tried updating the bootable NixOS version before the install, no luck.
Many mention to just be patient, but I doubt that applies to me, my device has an I9, 32Gb RAM, RTX 4080, and I waited for 2 hours since the moment the only logs shown in the install app were the carousel slides swapping every so often.
At this point I’ve considered a manual CLI install (you know, the whole thing with partitions, generating the nix config files and all, mounting and running the rebuild commands), but I’m not tech savvy enough in NixOS nor partitions and such to try that under a time constraint.
For now what I did was install Ubuntu and use a flake to install the home manager config where most of my setup is stored, but I really wanted to install NixOS in my devise, I do think if NixOS wants to take off and soar high, it needs to lower the barrier of entry, or at the very least solve these small blockers.