I had to go to the project's GitHub repo for a semblance of a description. For the uninitiated:
> Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. It provides the latest Wayland features, is highly customizable, has all the eyecandy, the most powerful plugins, easy IPC, much more QoL stuff than other compositors and more...
How much I would love to be able to use this. Every few years, I try to replace my Macbook with a different laptop and linux. But the "finish" that the Apple products have is unmatched.
Specially the keyboard/trackpad support. It's always been underwhelming with Linux. I know this is a subjective take and it's unrelated to Hyprland.
I hope that my next laptop can finally be the final step off to the Linux laptop, because I would love to use Hyprland.
I didn't jump back since the M1s. We are not ready to jump again battery, energy control, and fanless wise. I often read about the experience with Qualcomm in Samsung, Surface, Lenovo, and Acer devices. It is clear far far away. Asahi Linux is not the answer either.
Been using hyprland on wayland for about a year now and the biggest issue is the constant config changes. It seems every version changes the config file, and you have to resolve the new errors and find the new knobs to turn.
That and I can't get my mouse cursor big enough or colorful enough -- and more of a wayland issue is that the pointer will change depending on window.
I don't really use it to its fullest extent though
> the biggest issue is the constant config changes. It seems every version changes the config file, and you have to resolve the new errors and find the new knobs to turn.
I also maintain a very popular tiling window manager now (after years of suffering through breaking configuration changes with other twms) and this is the one thing that I will not budge on as a maintainer: Breaking configuration changes are unacceptable. Period.
From the contribution guidelines on the project README[1]:
> Breaking changes to user-facing interfaces are unacceptable
> ...
> No user should ever find that their configuration file has stopped working after upgrading to a new version of komorebi.
[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi?tab=readme-ov-file#breaki...
I've been running hyprland on NixOS for more than a few months now as my main system (also used for work!)
It's been remarkably reliable. There are definitely rough edges, but it's been a pleasure to use in general. It even works very smoothly with Microsoft teams, even screensharing works perfectly!
Not planning on moving to anything else anytime soon, wonderful experience and I'm glad to be one of the earlier adopters of a wayland-first system.
I run all my desktops on it, i even did a crappy nixos config to use it and the linux jellyfinmediaplayer app on an n100 attached to tv. I really need to better understand nixos is what i discovered from that.
its a great tiling window manager
It seems they are no longer using wlroots. This is news to me. This makes it something more than a slightly polished sway reimplementation and maybe worth taking a look at.
The developers of hyprland and wlroots had some conflicts: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
I've been running Hyprland for a while now. I find its window management capabilities quite good, in particular, the default 1 LHS / n RHS setting -- I lack the desire to deal with binary trees; the window manager should manage the windows, not me.
That being said, I am a W^X person so I don't really like some of the (x86_64-specific) aspects of their plugin systems. I need to publish my #ifdef-it-out-with-fire patch at some point...
Looks super nice. I don't even like animation usually but these look fast and buttery smooth. I wish I had this for Mac OS