[hd4]

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 quality)

Had to chuckle at the idea of hyprland support because the few times I had issues prior to this (with getting a nonstandard setup to work) I got made fun of on the discord which goes with the general vibe of getting support on discord so I wasn't mad at all, and eventually figured it out. The wiki does need a lot of work because I followed it and installing the recommended terminal emulator (kitty) was what caused a lot of hair pulling. Ghostty works far better.

[__s]

Drew DeVault detailed that your Discord experience is not unusual

https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

[ac130kz]

It's hasn't been performant for me all the 3 times I've tried. It kept chugging an entire CPU core. Never had a similar experience with Sway, it's still extremely responsive and light on the system (especially with Vulkan).

[d_tr]

> sway is not far off in quality

You mean it is better or worse in your experience?

[hd4]

didn't use sway for long enough to form an opinion. it did feel kind of workhorse-ish and boring which in hindsight is probably better. I was curious to see what I would get on a fairly old (intel iGPU) machine in terms of sheer performance with hyprland given it is fully GPU-accelerated through OpenGL and it was refreshing honestly. it's easy to see how they thought they could monetize it, pure looks and raw performance are very appealing to end-users.

the websites for both are a nice heuristic imo.

[pancsta]

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