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Re: Hyprland Premium

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post #4

This is the only DE/WM I have ever heard of having "premium" features. I don't have a problem with the developers trying to bring in some funding but this is bizarre. I predict there is around a 0% chance that someone won't fork hyprland and implement the premium features themselves. Especially in this scene.

And that's fine. The people who would use such a fork were never going to pay anyways.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#22
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

Re: Hyprland Premium

#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?

Re: Hyprland Premium

#24
post #5

I've got absolutely no problem with them taking donations / having a premium option. But it is very difficult to comment on when there is no indication what the premium experience brings.

I dunno if they changed the website since it was posted... But it literally lists exactly what you get?

(Basically, nothing, it's more or less a donation)

Re: Hyprland Premium

#25
post #22
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

#26
post #11

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.

There’s got to be a term for this given how I see it daily: when experts are so hyper focused that they’re not even aware they might have to at least indicate what a compositor even is.

I think a common response is that if you don’t know, you’re not the audience anyways. But that lops off your customer funnel and limits the general awareness of your product. You want to bring everyone one step closer to your product from wherever they are.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#27
post #14

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.

If ypu have no idea you probably dont want it tough

That assumes that everyone who wants your product already knows about it, which is true of zero products.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This landing page also fails to properly describe anything I understand.

It's sway with eye-candy. (Or, if you don't know about sway, the Wayland version of i3 — also with eye-candy). If you're still not sure, you're simply not the target audience, these things almost always require further learning and customization, so some level of gate-keeping from the start is helpful.

Yep this - you’re not the target audience. It’s a UI desktop layer for Linux, made for the enthusiast.

But also, OP posted a link that is not mobile friendly (at least on safari) and doesn’t say much about what this is. The main page does a fine job though (for those would care I guess).

Re: Hyprland Premium

#30
I've been using Hyprland now for 4 months and it's my first tiling WM experience. I absolutely love it and actually donated 10 euro to the dev(s?).

Having said that: This is simply not mature enough yet to warrant a 60 euro a year subscription, regardless of premium features.

To be clear, I do see the potential and I would actually pay it but this is too early.

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