I had to go to the project's GitHub repo for a semblance of a description. For the uninitiated:<p>> 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...
I've been running hyprland on NixOS for more than a few months now as my main system (also used for work!)<p>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!<p>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.
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.<p>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.<p>I don't really use it to its fullest extent though
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.<p><a href="https://hyprland.org/news/independentHyprland/" rel="nofollow">https://hyprland.org/news/independentHyprland/</a>
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.<p>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.<p>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 tried Arch+Hyprland a few months ago and it was rife with issues. Things like not being able to drag files between two windows and random crashes sending me back to login.<p>Pop OS's built-in tiling manager doesn't have these problems and it has a toggle for alternating between floating and tiled, which is helpful at times. It gets me to where I want MacOS to go without any of the exhaustive setup and just works.<p>As much as I would like to go with Hyprland for the fancy animations and stuff I don't have the patience for instability or configuration files breaking after updates. I am on team Cosmic for now.
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.<p>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...
I've been using Hyprland for about a year, and it's pretty great. I only wish there were more official layouts, kinda like XMonad. But it's very possible to add a plugin or use IPC to add just about any functionality you want. I think it's just a matter of time before window managers start being built on top of Hyprland
If you want to give it a spin look at MyLinux4work on YouTube. He has an installer that works with Arch and Fedora (Fedora support comes from a repo from someone else)
I still don't understand the selling point of Wayland. Something about screen-tearing? Surely that wouldn't require throwing out the whole thing. Something about "security"?<p>To this day, Wayland has problems that X never had, particulary screen-sharing or window management being dependent on the compositor implementation. What problems does this solve?