I hear Hyprland second only to Gnome in the NixOS world (where it's arguably easier to try different desktop environments compared to e.g. Ubuntu).

Now it could just be that Hyprland users are more vocal than XFCE or plasma users, so it's not definitive, but it definitely has "buzz"

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umbra07 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's... surprising. GNOME and Nix has very contrasting philosophies.

Anyways, Hyprland is primarily driven by the Arch side of things, considering that:

* there are way more Arch users than Nix users

* Arch is much more trendy amongst non-developer/Linux users.

* Arch is easier to setup and use - less friction

* Arch is more popular in the unixporn reddit/YouTube world, which is where Hyprland gained much of its popularity

* the Hyprland developer uses Arch, and has recently started selling customized dot files, advertised as "supported on Arch- based and Fedora distributions."

Nix users are simply not a driving force in the Linux userland world.

	▲	aidenn0 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		1. GNOME is the 800lb gorilla of linux DEs, so I would be surprised if it weren't the most common DE on any distro that doesn't default to something else. 2. I didn't mean to imply that Hyperland is driven by NixOS (NixOS is niche enough I doubt it drives anything); just that it seems to have hype on NixOS. I use NixOS, I'm semi-active in the NixOS community, and I regularly interact with NixOS users. I don't regularly interact with anybody that uses Arch, so why would I comment on the Arch community?

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Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

yes as an hyprland user, the community is definitely more vocal. I myself convinced one of my friends to use hyprland fedora as his first linux experience which is wild

(I also use nixos too but I use nix plasma and arch hyprland, i mean I barely use nix, arch is my goto but you get my point)

I agree it has buzz but its just cool open source software man, I like it. it isn't as plug n play even still as plasma or gnome for example but that's the point. Makes for a really good minimalist system but for me somethings don't usually work that "just" work on other desktop environments but I learnt a lot and now its a really enjoyable experience.

One example I can give of where I really had a big issue with hyprland was consistent schema around every application. I think its still broken on my system for qt apps which I had fixed but then broke again I think, but I now don't have the time to fix it and its a minor inconvenience at best. nothing wrong to hyprland, that's just fundamentally how it works if you try hyprland like me.

Omarchy seems to be promising the premise of hyprland with "it just works" Maybe if my arch system bricks, I will give omarchy a try. Untill then, I am happy with my theme and hyprland. Its cool. Dhh is also cool for making omarchy tbh.

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hd4 2 days ago | parent [-]

The reason it's wild is someone has managed to make a tiling WM that isn't just usable and nice, but actually created incredible hype around it, and made people want to give it a chance and switch away from something as entrenched as DEs. It's really a wondrous achievement, something the majority of the Linux community never thought could be done until it was.

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Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, I agree.

Although I don't necessarily agree with the hyprland's main dev's responses on many github issues (which sound crude/rude to me) and I think that the community from what I've heard has also become just a little toxic on things like discord but I feel like sometimes we need to seperate the art from the artist and hyprland is picking even more hype so the main's dev's crudeness can be tucked away even more so. To be honest, thinking about it, even linus is crude yet the penguin (tux/linux) is universally loved (for the most part) So yeah. for the most part, I like hyprland.

	▲	seaal a day ago \| parent [-]
		Well he is a 22 year old kid.