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Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by throwing_away »

Some context for anyone unfamiliar with the linux desktop space:

Hyprland is a "wayland compositor" (roughly analogous to an X Window Manager) that is under active community development: https://hypr.land

Wayland is considered the future of the linux desktop and is what projects like Valve's SteamDeck are using: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

It's known that Hyprland Premium is going to include a bunch of pre-made dotfiles including a Quickshell bar config, if you want to see the current top-tier rice: https://quickshell.outfoxxed.me/

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by DaSHacka »

__s wrote: post #22
hd4 wrote: post #10

I've been using hyprland for about 6 months now, it's undeniably performant, buttery-smooth even but there are still a lot of paper cuts there - I have a feeling this will piss quite a few people off given the temperament in the Linux community for subscription-based software; also feel like it's not really the smartest thing to do if good alternatives already exist for what you're building (sway is not far off in qu…

Drew DeVault detailed that your Discord experience is not unusual https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

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Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by WD-42 »

calmbonsai wrote: post #6

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

Neither the developers of Hypr nor the users care about having a good "product website" calling a window manager a product in the first place is already weird and just kinda shows you aren't the target audience.

Not everything is trying to be the next iPhone.

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by pancsta »

d_tr wrote: post #40
hd4 wrote: post #10

I've been using hyprland for about 6 months now, it's undeniably performant, buttery-smooth even but there are still a lot of paper cuts there - I have a feeling this will piss quite a few people off given the temperament in the Linux community for subscription-based software; also feel like it's not really the smartest thing to do if good alternatives already exist for what you're building (sway is not far off in qu…

> sway is not far off in quality You mean it is better or worse in your experience?

Sway is way more stable, just less eye candy (which is great). Hyperland is practically a fork (wlroots) by a single dev.

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by echelon »

rc00 wrote: post #50
echelon wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a tiling window manager for a few Linux distros. Arch, not Ubuntu.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&...

Sure, but their own install page recommends against it:

> distros like Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, etc. will have major issues running Hyprland.

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by yencabulator »

jegp wrote: post #2

Great. If they can make some money out of this, why not? I wonder what happens if they lock down some features as premium-only. The competition is tight in this space and there are tons of alternatives to Hyprland, like Sway, River, etc. Monetizing open-source code sounds like a dangerous path...

Niri is in the exact same style of smoothly animated tiled columns sliding around, and it's much more pleasant as a community/project. And if you care, it's in Rust not C++.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by yencabulator »

arguflow wrote: post #13
jegp wrote: post #2

Great. If they can make some money out of this, why not? I wonder what happens if they lock down some features as premium-only. The competition is tight in this space and there are tons of alternatives to Hyprland, like Sway, River, etc. Monetizing open-source code sounds like a dangerous path...

Tiling window managers on Wayland still are pretty early sadly.

I've been using Niri for a solid year, it's been great.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by yencabulator »

kjuulh wrote: post #11
calmbonsai wrote: post #6

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/ Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.

Only if you already know what "compositor" means in this context.

> Modern compositor with the looks

> Hyprland provides the latest Wayland features, dynamic tiling, all the eyecandy, powerful plugins and much more, while still being lightweight and responsive

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by const_cast »

turnsout wrote: post #23

It's surprising to me that attractive, GPU-accelerated window compositing is not a 100% solved problem in the Linux ecosystem. I'm assuming I'm missing some huge technical challenge. Does anyone have the ELI5 on this?

> It's surprising to me that attractive, GPU-accelerated window compositing is not a 100% solved problem in the Linux ecosystem.

It is - kwin has been doing this for a long time, both on X and now on Wayland.

The problem is that the Linux desktop is composed of mostly open-source software. So people are going to make their own things, fork whatever you make, whatever. There's no one true "blessed" method like we see on Windows or Mac because that's literally impossible on Linux. There's no one corporation or entity strangle-holding the desktop to how they want it done.

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by const_cast »

yencabulator wrote: post #68
kjuulh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/ Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.

Only if you already know what "compositor" means in this context. > Modern compositor with the looks > Hyprland provides the latest Wayland features, dynamic tiling, all the eyecandy, powerful plugins and much more, while still being lightweight and responsive

If you're in the market for a Wayland compositor you should know what compositor means. If you're not in the market for a Wayland compositor then I can't imagine you'd ever need to know anything about hyprland.
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