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Hyprland

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Hyprland is a 100% independent, 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.

Note that this community does not agree with vaxry, however is only for the software itself.

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No one's posting anything for me to read so..

I just got hyprland the other day, still getting everything setup so that I have a full desktop environment, but so far I am enjoying the process of picking and choosing each element.

Hyprland itself is great, but it really opened my eyes to wayland and how great the ecosystem is with stuff like Waybar, tofi and all the other tools.

I considered omarchy, but you have to install that like an OS, which sucks, so I ended up just installing hyprland (and the other stuff) manually, and I'm glad I did. Doing it manually forced me to learn how all the bits fit together, which I thought would be boring, thankfully it wasn't.

All of that and then before posting this I read this communities sidebar: "we don't agree with vaxry". Looked up "vaxry drama" just to now find out that they are encouraging and engaging in their own toxic community and stuff... if I knew that before, I probably wouldn't have gone down the rabbit hole that is hyprland and building your own DE like lego, mostly because: can you trust someone like that and feel good about running their code on your system?

I'm coming from being a KDE Plasma enjoyer for the past half-decade, and I have never heard any drama from their side so coming here and seeing that is kinda shocking, though I guess that's what you get when you have one core person building the software (who is still young themselves).

I think I'm going to stick with hyprland for now because looking back, KDE Plasma seems like a janky & slow mess in comparison to what I have now.

Still feels like a shame that good software is tainted by this type of behavior, I hope they and their community is getting better, but I'm not super up-to-date on the whole fiasco (just finished reading some old blog posts on it, nothing new, so maybe they have become better idk yet).

I know linux itself can have some toxic traits in the community, but usually that's just people being very forward in their communications. Nothing homophobic as far as I know..

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