NixOS Linux 17.03 Installation with KDE Plasma 5 on VMware Workstation

NixOS Linux 17.03 Installation with KDE Plasma 5 on VMware Workstation

This video tutorial shows NixOS Linux 17.03 with KDE Plasma 5 Desktop Installation and Review on VMware Workstation step by step. We'll also install applications such as Firefox, VLC, GIMP, FileZilla, Kate and LibreOffice on NixOS Linux. This tutorial is also helpful to install NixOS 17.03 on physical computer or server. We'll also install and test VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) on NixOS for better performance and usability features such as Fit Guest Now, Drag-Drop File, Clipboard Sharing and Mouse Integration.

NixOS Linux 17.03 Intallation Steps:

1. Download NixOS 17.03 ISO
2. Create Virtual Machine on VMware Workstation/Player
3. Start NixOS Linux Installation with KDE Plasma 5
4. Installing and Configuring VMware Tools (Open VM Tools)
5. Installing Firefox, VLC, GIMP, FileZilla, Kate and LibreOffice Applications on NixOS Linux
6. Installing and Configuring VMware Tools (Open VM Tools)
7. NixOS 17.03 Review

Installing NixOS 17.03 with KDE Plasma 5 on VMware Workstation

NixOS 17.03 New Features and Improvements

NixOS is an independently developed Linux distribution which uses the Nix package manager to handle packages and system configuration. NixOS offers many advanced package management features, including roll backs and atomic package operations. NixOS 17.03 ships with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment which replaces KDE 4. The PHP packages have been updated to version 7 and the Nix package manager includes a number of new features. In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights: Nixpkgs is now extensible through overlays; this release is based on glibc 2.25, GCC 5.4.0 and systemd 232; the default Linux kernel is 4.9.

What is KDE Desktop?

The KDE Community is an international technology team dedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon.  In this regard, the resources provided by KDE make it a central development hub and home for many popular applications and projects like Calligra Suite, Krita, digiKam, and many others.
KDE Website: https://www.kde.org/

What is KDE Plasma 5?

KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth and current generation of the desktop environment created by KDE primarily for Linux systems. KDE Plasma 5 is the successor of KDE Plasma 4 and was initially released on 15 July 2014. It includes a new default theme, known as "Breeze", as well as increased convergence across different devices. The graphical interface was fully migrated to QML, which uses OpenGL for hardware acceleration resulting in better performance and reduced power consumption. Plasma 5.0 improves support for HiDPI displays and ships a converged graphical shell, able to modify the graphical shell according to the device in use. It also includes a new default theme, dubbed Breeze.

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