NixOS / Hyprland
A Wayland-first daily driver with Ghostty, Quickshell, declarative hardware, gaming, and work tooling.
NixOS Configuration · Systems Work
A personal
system of order.
One modular flake for a Hyprland workstation, a GNOME alternative, and a MacBook Air — with the details that make a machine feel like yours.
surya@nixos ~/Dotfiles/nixos-config
$ nh os switch
building system configuration...
activating home-manager profile...
✓ system is up to date
THE CONFIGURATION
Three targets.
Flake outputs compose small, focused modules into complete operating-system configurations.
NixOS / GNOME
A conventional GNOME session built from the same reusable system and Home Manager layers.
nix-darwin / macOS
A MacBook Air configuration that keeps shell, development, and user preferences portable.
THE ROAD FROM INPUT TO DESKTOP
Designed as a flow.
01
Flake inputs
Pin the ecosystem and keep updates intentional.
02
Deferred modules
Group concerns without enabling them accidentally.
03
Host composition
Select the right system and user layers.
04
Daily runtime
Services, UI, tools, and hardware work together.
WHAT LIVES HERE
Details matter.
Not just packages — the choices that make a desktop feel calm, capable, and personal.
Serpantinum
A focused Quickshell desktop shell patched at build time from upstream.
Original project ↗Developer tools
Fish, Starship, Ghostty, VS Code, Git, and project tooling together.
Hardware-aware
Audio, Bluetooth, NVIDIA, networking, boot, storage, and work integrations.
START HERE
Bring it up.
Clone the flake, choose a target, and let Nix do the rest.
$ git clone https://github.com/suryavamsi6/nixos-config.git $ cd nixos-config $ nh os switch # Hyprland $ nix run nix-darwin -- switch --flake .#macbook-air
Small modules, clear boundaries
System and Home Manager layers stay separate until the host composes them.
Upstream where possible
Focused build-time patches instead of unnecessary forks.
Safe by default
Secrets stay out of the flake and destructive workflows stay deliberate.
Made for the actual machine
Reliability choices follow the hardware and how it is used every day.