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  • Harold@feddit.nltoLinux@programming.dev•NixOS 25.11 "Xantusia" Ships with GNOME 49, Linux kernel 6.17English
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    3 days ago

    As others have commented, the article is a little misleading. Especially to those not familiar with NixOS:

    • “The desktop stack is updated to GNOME 49.”
    • “Under the hood, the release updates the Linux kernel to 6.17 (with 6.12 LTS also available).”

    These changes have been made available through packages in the nixpkgs repo, branched to the 25.11 release.

    However, NixOS doesn’t “stack” GNOME into it. Nor does it carry specific Linux kernels “under the hood”.

    You can pin any version of any release of any listed package (including kernels) from the nixpkgs repo to your configuration. More specifically even with Flakes, but that’s not even required, if that isn’t your thing.

    So for example, I am running a specific host with NixOS 25.11, and Linux kernel 6.17.58 (LTS). (There is a specific use case for me to do so on that particular host.) This runs out of the box due to how I’ve configured NixOS, which is precisely the point of Nix, you configure it how you want it.