Disclaimer: This is a private configuration that will change drastically based on my own use cases: it is not a community distribution or framework. This configuration is only on Github here for my own convenience and to inspire others.

This is an evolving, pragmatic NixOS configuration + various dotfiles, built around my daily computing use cases:

• evolving because I'm still figuring out what kind of structure I like best, and have a lot to learn. There are many TODOs to properly refactor the code.
• pragmatic because I strive for reproducibility, purity, and modularity, but there may be sacrifices as temporary workarounds or due to my current lack of knowledge.

As far as my use cases: I'm a mathematician who spends a lot of time in neovim writing LaTeX using the vimtex plugin; I live in terminal emulators, and I like to toy with functional programming.

• Based on an entry point flake
• Unstable channel by default (this may change)
• Home manager is used as a module, although I might move it to a standalone

• Window Manager: a highly customized XMonad
• Status Bar: XMobar
• Shell: Fish shell with a custom prompt forked from the sample fish nim prompt
• Terminal Emulator: Alacritty
• Editor: Neovim, with many custom Ultisnips snippets that built around latex snippets for my current research papers.
• Other
  • I use Interception tools with custom plugins to modify the behavior of pressed keys:
    • my caps lock key is swapped with escape (turning into escape immediately on press, this is different than caps2esc);
    • my right control functions as another super key (useful for XMonad);
    • and my enter key functions as right control when held, enter when tapped.

I run a couple of servers, but they're not on NixOS...yet.

Here's a description of the most important files and directories:

• flake.nix: entrypoint flake
• configuration.nix: currently the main desktop, system-level config
• home.nix: some user-level configuration
• modules/: NixOS modules
• home-modules/: modules called by home-manager
• packages/: custom packages
• dotfiles/: configuration files and data
• data/: more static data: (TODO: combine with dotfiles)
• hosts/: machines to run NixOS on

bespoke configuration + lazy functional programming mathematician => NixOS

Paraphrasing Henrik Lissner: almost certainly no.

The following dotfiles are configurations that I use as inspiration and strive for:

• hlissner's config: I aspire toward a configuration with this sort of organization
• vyp's config: I picked up a few tricks from here