NixOS Desktop

Graphical desktop stacks on NixOS: compositors, audio, fonts, Flatpak/FHS, gaming, and peripherals.

Contents

• Wayland and compositors — Plasma, GNOME, Hyprland/Sway; portals
• Audio and PipeWire — PipeWire vs PulseAudio leftovers
• Fonts and locales — Fontconfig and i18n
• Flatpak and FHS — Flatpak coexistence; buildFHSEnv / steam-run
• Gaming: Steam and Proton — Steam, Proton, Gamescope
• Printing and scanning — CUPS and SANE
• nix-ld and foreign binaries — Prebuilt vendor binaries on NixOS