The only thing I do to my new systems is installing oh-my-zsh, because that gives me a lot of goodies for basically zero configuration (I just use and learned the default presets to be "my own")
Last week I took a repo full of notes about the sizes of building materials and made inkscape and gimp "dependencies" of that project.
Next time I install Linux I think I'm going to make the filesystem immutable so that I not only don't configure it, but can't.
Now I've replaced it with a Hammerspoon script with some additions like setting my window layout based on where I am.
It's so much easier when you don't need to customise everything to the nines.
(I SO MUCH want to like and use Nix, but every time I've tried I've failed :D)