NixOS rebuild fails after switching from GNOME to Xfce
A NixOS rebuild fails after moving from GNOME to xfce and adding Docker and Winboat, with unclear errors.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 30 September 2026 · last reported 1 October 2026
What's going wrong
New NixOS users who switched their desktop from GNOME to Xfce and then added Docker and Winboat find that their system rebuild fails, and the error messages they get back are hard to interpret.
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