Using the word “genocide” in the source code in 2023 is way more weird than using master/slave or blacklist/whitelist. Those terms have been around for decades.

Yep, this one: https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-25.11/latest-nixos-graphical-x86_64-linux.iso. I don’t have a GitHub account, but someone else said it’s normal. So who knows!

Good to know! I’ve not seen any other distribution handle home folders that way. I’ve even installed previous versions of NixOS and don’t remember ever needing to do that. Seems like an odd choice to me, but NixOS has a few of those so it’s all good. Definitely not a beginner distro.

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.

I tried installing it for fun and my /home/$user folder is empty. Is that normal? Like there’s no Desktop, Downloads, Documents, etc folders by default. I picked the GNOME desktop environment at install. Never seen that before.

Is there an equivalent product to AirPods that does support Linux well? I’m genuinely asking because I’d be interested in buying them. I’ve owned a few different brands of wireless earbuds. AirPods ironically had the least amount of syncing issues.