diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd/logind.nix b/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd/logind.nix
index f81baae8813e..bdf4ab4d4873 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd/logind.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd/logind.nix
@@ -64,13 +64,13 @@
     environment.etc."systemd/logind.conf".text =
       utils.systemdUtils.lib.settingsToSections config.services.logind.settings;
 
-    # Restarting systemd-logind breaks X11
+    # Restarting systemd-logind breaks X11 and other user sessions.
+    # However, reloading the service seems to do the trick of loading new configuration without breaking anything.
     # - upstream commit: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc48bd653c7e101
     # - systemd announcement: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/22043e4317ecd2bc7834b48a6d364de76bb26d91/NEWS#L103-L112
     # - this might be addressed in the future by xorg
     #systemd.services.systemd-logind.restartTriggers = [ config.environment.etc."systemd/logind.conf".source ];
-    systemd.services.systemd-logind.restartIfChanged = false;
-    systemd.services.systemd-logind.stopIfChanged = false;
+    systemd.services.systemd-logind.reloadIfChanged = true;
 
     # The user-runtime-dir@ service is managed by systemd-logind we should not touch it or else we break the users' sessions.
     systemd.services."user-runtime-dir@".stopIfChanged = false;