I liked hyprland for about one month this August, wasted a lot to make the configuration how I liked. Then they changed the config suddenly without warning. Installed GNOME as a fallback because I needed to do actual work, wasted another weekend to fix the configuration. Nice, I used it for some other time and... broken again within a month. At least deprecate the configuration and give one version of tolerance...
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And that is why I no longer use Hyprland and actually thinking about removing that branch from my dotfiles repo. Why vaxry doesn't seem to understand the concept of "deprecation"?
I moved on to Niri a couple of months ago for various reasons, constantly having to fix and re-check my config against the docs being one of them.
For me Niri performs better, I really like the workflow and the dev behind it is very deliberate with new features and changes. Feels like he has a clear vision on how it's supposed to work and it shows imo.
Just recently switched to Niri myself - I think the fact that Niri inherits a lot from Smithay for compositior stuff really helps. It’s the same compositor base that cosmic DE uses. Sure hyprland has HDR at present and Niri doesn’t, but I think it helps a lot to not build a compositor and a TWM at the same time. vaxry is honestly just doing way too much and it’s unsustainable and new version blow ups like this were inevitable given how big the install base has become and how huge hyprland feature set has gotten
Dumbest thing in software imo, is when I see software that is obviously worthy of being out of v0 (beta, alpha, etc), stay in v0.
Though since it still is v0, I guess we can't expect much.
Not sure why it is, maybe there is a good reason, but the software functions well enough for a stable release, though at the same time, this is a very small scale operation with great ambitions and a big userbase. If you api needs to be updated, it's obviously much easier to just push a breaking change than to maintain a migration period.
There's a lot of nuance, but I'd like more software to just enter v1 when it works as intended and then breaking changes can increment the major version rather than staying in v0 which is harder to tell when a breaking change happens.
p.s. so far config changes in hyprland have only been a 5 min fix so i haven't experienced this fuss yet, maybe soon!
It really is a problem. I don't think I ever used another WM that broke config as much as Hyprland.
hyprland moto should be: the faster one moves, the harder it will crash onto the wall, and we are at C speed
You don't have to tell me master. That shit broke more than my Arch install.
Me using KDE Plasma because I prefer to work with my computer rather than work on my computer:
The rare double ambiguity: "work on" and "work with" could both have two meanings with opposite effects in the sentence
I’m not sure what’s wrong with my config but almost every time I wake it from having the screens off (it doesn’t sleep because it’s my media PC too) plasma is just dead and may or may not boot up again. Running plasmashell —replace (or whatever the command is) doesn’t fix it every time.
I blame nvidia.
I blame nvidia too, this used to happen to me, but hasn't so far since using hyprland, etc (maybe because hypridle isn't so complicated when setup to use the basic commands for turning off screens/sleeping).
(I actually do sleep my machine)
You need to pass an option to Nvidia in the grub launch commend that will keep the buffer or something.
It’s been a few days and I tried this. Got a crash yesterday that still required a reboot. :/
I think it is happening less though. I’ll keep looking down this path as it could be the right direction, and it’s the first time I’ve heard of this, so thank you!
Your welcome, I don't remember how I got this solution but it was very hard to find. Not the first place I would search. I thought it was a driver issue. Anyway, thanks for the feedback and good luck!
i use kde but i do like it heavily customised, im not going through 1000 config files to make it 1% smoother and to change the wallpaper tho
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Meanwhile, desktop environment users:
I am out of the loop, what’s going on with hyperland?
Is this a continuation of the DHH issues?
I assume it's about hyprland changing the syntax for window rules like.. 6 days ago
Yes. It's not even an inconvenience to update, but people with bloated third party dotfiles got blasted with a million error messages and are making confused reddit posts
It was actually pretty inconvenient because I found the syntax for "anonymous rules" basically undocumented.
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