I see no reason to migrate from sway.
Hyprland needs a real fork and rebrand so that it’s not run by fascists.
Vaxry is:
I agree that Vaxyr has a terrible record with community-building and tolerates bullying.
I don’t think it’s fair to call him a Nazi sympathizer, based on the linked screenshots. He never said he espouses the ideology, he just said he wouldn’t blanket ban Nazis from his server. Obviously that’s a bad take, but it’s not the same as being a Nazi sympathizer.
I don’t think that’s the point either, he said if they were Nazis but didn’t talk about it, he wouldn’t ban them, makes perfect sense because if someone isn’t talking about who they are on your Discord server, why would you ban them based on something you don’t care about (who they are, their ideology, their beliefs… etc), everyone is in there for the code (supposedly), but it seems that Vaxry is right, the person he’s talking to, is the extremist one, and I just hate it when someone goes to open source devs to virtue signal only to get butthurt even more
Internet really hates talented people I tell you that…
If you bother to spend any time around him outside of the linked items I put, his nazi sympathizer traits become apparent.
It’s draining to me to have to explain this because like all fash, they understand that they should only use degwhistles and never blatantly say something stupid like “I’m literally a nazi”.
I think you missed the point
For some of us, this is very important.
As much as what the program does?
The point has not been missed. The project does not deserve any hype.
As others have stated, it’s a tiling window manager. Many, including me, prefer it to the usual floating window managers that most desktops use.
But I’ve been using sway since switching to wayland after years with i3. I see lots of hyprland hype, but i’m happy with my sway workflow and don’t see anything about hyprland that makes me want to switch or even try it out.
The same thing happened awhile back with i3wm. It’s just the current popular fancy window manager and looks fairly decent out of the box.
As far as lightweight window managers go, it’s pretty middle of the road. Something like DWM or 2BWM will get you a smaller footprint, but come at the cost of needing extra configuration to make them look more modern.
hyprland has useful features for a tiling compositor, like a special container you can toggle that goes in front of your workspace and it’s easy to customise and set up.
However, i think wayfire, even though much harder to set up (it needs a proper config and some helper apps or it’s just empty and you can’t even launch anything), has cooler effects and has a simple tiling plugin.
Also Gnome/mutter with the Forge extension is better than both, because you can optionally use just the mouse to drag windows at the title bar and drop them in a tiling frame of your choice. This is very helpful when your left hand is full of cheeto dust etc… Gnome also has the extensions Burn My Windows, Focus, Desktop Cube and Dash to Panel which get you cool effects as well. It also has a Tweaks tool and the extension Just Perfection, which give you additional customization options. Gnome is very easy to set up and usable OOTB, even though not fine tuned. Also it is still backwards compatible to X11, in case you need that one app that looks crap in wayland (looking at you, Java)
Thank you for asking this. Also wondering. It’s just a compositor for wayland right? A compton/picom equivalent?
Seeing so many posts about it, and wondering why.
I use AwesomeWM with Picom, and my idea of what a compositor does is: provide smooth v-synced video playback, and maybe fade a window out gently when I ask it to vanish.
I think compositors are now taking on new animation/interaction roles, where they are getting fancy with screen transitions like scaling/moving/focusing and other than actually managing the windows, are almost becoming Desktop managers themselves.
It’s a tiling window manager, equivalent of AwesomeWM, but more similar to i3wm and swaywm. It does have built in window transparency effects.
It’s a tiling window manager that has been popular in ricing community. Window manager is a subcomponent of a desktop environment (eg. KDE has KWin), so I suppose you can say it is lighter, but it’s different from desktop environments, which has window manager alongside many other components.
As the name suggests, all it does is manage windows. You can move them around, resize them, make one take up the whole screen, move them into different workspace, etc. What makes tiling window manager popular is that it’s minimal, making it easier to build your own desktop environment, and a perfect fit for keyboard-oriented workflow. I use Hyprland myself, and I can definitely work just fine without using a mouse.
As for why Hyprland is popular as opposed to other window managers, I think it’s because
- It’s relatively new
- It got cool animations
- Bunch of well known people use it
@Object new would generally mean less popular right? I’m comparing it to lxqt in the practical lightness department since it seems to be a fancy wm and it might be more usable as a replacement than lxqt/de which is a pain for me to use. Is the keyboard aspect required?
New would genereally mean less popular, yeah, but Hyprland is past that level of new. Frankly, I haven’t compared Hyprland to light DEs like LXQt. I don’t really see LXQt working as a replacement for Hyprland. With LXQt, when you boot up your computer, you get things like
- Taskbar
- Start menu
- Background with icons you can double click
With Hyprland alone, you get none of above. You need to install each component by yourself. Additionally, you get a very minimal configuration that is stored in a single file, and you are expected to make it however you want it to behave.
The keyboard aspect isn’t necessary, but you need to install start menus, taskbars, etc yourself, or use someone else’s config. Hyprland allows you to set keybinds for a lot of actions including running programs and commands, which is why your workflow ends up being more keyboard oriented.
Feel free to ask more. I don’t have much to do today.
@Object I’m guessing hyprland is as usable as a desktop environment or at least better than lxqt which is atrocious? Or do I have to install extra extensions or have to muck around in the config to have a proper desktop? All the dev influencers seem to use it.
Unfortunately, you will have to do a lot of tweaking a lot to get it to usable level. You won’t have any start menus, taskbars, GUI-based settings, or any clickable buttons outside of the program you are running right off the bat. These are intended to be filled in with programs of your own choice, but it won’t be shipped with Hyprland.
Or do I have to install extra extensions or have to muck around in the config to have a proper desktop?
Yes, that is the case. It’s what makes it attractive for those who want maximum customisability, even if it takes a long time to get there.
It’s just beautiful
