Submitted 1 week ago by Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
@nostupidquestions What's up with the hyprland hype?
Is it lighter than lxde/lxqt/xfce?
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.
If you just mean recently, one of the YouTubers with the most subscribers recently released a video about why he switched to Linux, and in it, he says he uses hyprland
May be affecting its popularity
hyprland has useful features for a tiling compositor, like a special container you can toggle that goes in front of your workspace and is 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)
I see no reason to migrate from sway.
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, make one take up the whole screen, move them into different workspace, etc. What makes it 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 mouse.
Thank you for asking this. Also wondering. It’s just a compositor for wayland right? A compton/picom equivalent?
It’s a tiling window manager, equivalent of AwesomeWM, bu more similar to i3 and sway.
It’s a really slick looking WM, with a lot of customization, that is Wayland focused. It’s a really good project with a lot of promise. I think the hype is warranted.
It’s just beautiful
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.
How does it compare to i3?
It’s pretty handy for to go use, but on Desktop it is not really my thing
axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Hyprland needs a real fork and rebrand so that it’s not run by fascists.
Vaxry is:
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 week ago
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.
electro1@infosec.pub 1 week ago
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 the 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 ger butthurt even more
Internet really hates talented people I tell you that…
the_abecedarian@piefed.social 5 days ago
Tolerating them is a form of support. They make spaces unsafe for others.
electro1@infosec.pub 1 week ago
I think you missed the point
Luci@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
For some of us, this is very important.
axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
The point has not been missed. The project does not deserve any hype.
AnalogFunk@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
lol
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 week ago
Why does these groups always use discord