Hi there!
I’m new to NixOS.
I’ve installed NixOS besides my Manjaro KDE installation on my Lenovo ThinkPad P16v Gen1 laptop. The Calamares installer failed for me, probably because it doesn’t support installing on an existing luks+btrfs setup. So I followed the (very nicely written) manual installation guide at NixOS Manual which got me a working bootloader that manages to get me to a (much too tiny not highdpi-screen aware) login screen. Sadly, from there I don’t manage to enter the Plasma6 desktop I think I’ve installed. It just freezes upon entering a correct user+password combination. I’ve tried both the Wayland and the X11 sessions from the drop-down but both just make the login screen hang (I still can move the mouse pointer). When choosing the X11 session the mouse pointer changes to that “typical old looking” X-Symbol.
I’m able to switch to a TTY session from the login manager and used this to set my users password, since I didn’t see how to do that in the manual installation guide, which only prompted me to set root’s password.
Below the modified config files originially generated by nixos-generate-config:
configuration.nix
# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page, on
# https://search.nixos.org/options and in the NixOS manual (`nixos-help`).
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
./hardware-configuration.nix
];
# Use the systemd-boot EFI boot loader.
boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
boot.loader.efi.efiSysMountPoint = "/boot/efi";
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
# networking.hostName = "nixos"; # Define your hostname.
# Pick only one of the below networking options.
# networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.
networking.networkmanager.enable = true; # Easiest to use and most distros use this by default.
# Set your time zone.
time.timeZone = "Europe/Vienna";
# Configure network proxy if necessary
# networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
# networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";
# Select internationalisation properties.
# i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
# console = {
# font = "Lat2-Terminus16";
# keyMap = "us";
# useXkbConfig = true; # use xkb.options in tty.
# };
# Enable the X11 windowing system.
services.xserver.enable = true;
# https://nixos.wiki/wiki/KDE
# use KDE Plasma 6 on 24.05
services.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
services.desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true;
environment.plasma6.excludePackages = with pkgs.kdePackages; [
plasma-browser-integration
oxygen
];
# Using the following example configuration, QT applications will have a look similar to the GNOME desktop, using a dark theme.
qt = {
enable = true;
platformTheme = "gnome";
style = "adwaita-dark";
};
# Configure keymap in X11
# services.xserver.xkb.layout = "us";
# services.xserver.xkb.options = "eurosign:e,caps:escape";
# Enable CUPS to print documents.
# services.printing.enable = true;
# Enable sound.
# hardware.pulseaudio.enable = true;
# OR
services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
pulse.enable = true;
};
# Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
# services.libinput.enable = true;
# Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users.user = {
isNormalUser = true;
extraGroups = [ "wheel" ]; # Enable ‘sudo’ for the user.
packages = with pkgs; [
firefox
thunderbird
smplayer
audacity
gimp
htop
dool
ncdu
keepassxc
remmina
#nextcloud-desktop
#tree
];
};
# List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
# $ nix search wget
# environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
# vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
# wget
# ];
# Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
# started in user sessions.
# programs.mtr.enable = true;
# programs.gnupg.agent = {
# enable = true;
# enableSSHSupport = true;
# };
# List services that you want to enable:
# Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
# services.openssh.enable = true;
# Open ports in the firewall.
# networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
# networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
# Or disable the firewall altogether.
# networking.firewall.enable = false;
# Copy the NixOS configuration file and link it from the resulting system
# (/run/current-system/configuration.nix). This is useful in case you
# accidentally delete configuration.nix.
system.copySystemConfiguration = true;
# This option defines the first version of NixOS you have installed on this particular machine,
# and is used to maintain compatibility with application data (e.g. databases) created on older NixOS versions.
#
# Most users should NEVER change this value after the initial install, for any reason,
# even if you've upgraded your system to a new NixOS release.
#
# This value does NOT affect the Nixpkgs version your packages and OS are pulled from,
# so changing it will NOT upgrade your system - see https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-upgrading for how
# to actually do that.
#
# This value being lower than the current NixOS release does NOT mean your system is
# out of date, out of support, or vulnerable.
#
# Do NOT change this value unless you have manually inspected all the changes it would make to your configuration,
# and migrated your data accordingly.
#
# For more information, see `man configuration.nix` or https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options#opt-system.stateVersion .
system.stateVersion = "24.05"; # Did you read the comment?
}
hardware-configuration.nix
# Do not modify this file! It was generated by ‘nixos-generate-config’
# and may be overwritten by future invocations. Please make changes
# to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix instead.
{ config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:
{
imports =
[ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix")
];
boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "thunderbolt" "nvme" "uas" "sd_mod" "rtsx_pci_sdmmc" ];
boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ];
boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" ];
boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
fileSystems."/" =
{ device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/e67ffd5a-0077-48c8-9d27-c3788244e48d";
fsType = "btrfs";
options = [ "subvol=@nixos_root" ];
};
boot.initrd.luks.devices."luks-adbda9bc-3558-4216-b878-a217c0279fd3".device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/adbda9bc-3558-4216-b878-a217c0279fd3";
fileSystems."/home" =
{ device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/e67ffd5a-0077-48c8-9d27-c3788244e48d";
fsType = "btrfs";
options = [ "subvol=@nixos_home" ];
};
fileSystems."/var/log" =
{ device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/e67ffd5a-0077-48c8-9d27-c3788244e48d";
fsType = "btrfs";
options = [ "subvol=@nixos_log" ];
};
fileSystems."/var/cache" =
{ device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/e67ffd5a-0077-48c8-9d27-c3788244e48d";
fsType = "btrfs";
options = [ "subvol=@nixos_cache" ];
};
fileSystems."/boot/efi" =
{ device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/4428-1A76";
fsType = "vfat";
options = [ "fmask=0022" "dmask=0022" ];
};
swapDevices = [ ];
# Enables DHCP on each ethernet and wireless interface. In case of scripted networking
# (the default) this is the recommended approach. When using systemd-networkd it's
# still possible to use this option, but it's recommended to use it in conjunction
# with explicit per-interface declarations with `networking.interfaces.<interface>.useDHCP`.
networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
# networking.interfaces.wlp0s20f3.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
nixpkgs.hostPlatform = lib.mkDefault "x86_64-linux";
hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
}
