{"slug": "hyprland", "name": "Hyprland", "category": "os", "category_name": "Operating systems and desktop", "description": "A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor for Linux with animations and extensive configuration options.", "recommenders": 15, "commenters": 29, "warners": 4, "score": 11.776, "rising": 1.73, "first": "2025-11-14", "latest": "2026-10-21", "why": "Liked as a keyboard-driven Wayland tiling setup with deep, Lua-scriptable customization, and some say they can't go back after the adjustment period.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 15, "neutral": 10, "compare": 2, "warn": 4}, "spark": [1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 3, 2, 1, 2], "listed": true, "loved": ["Customization", "Tiling workflow"], "caveat": "Steep effort", "short_quote": "Switched to Hyprland about a month ago.  Wasn't feeling it at first but after a few weeks I don't think I can go back.", "icon": true, "domain": "hypr.land", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://hyprland.org", "pricing": "open source", "aliases": ["Hyprland"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked as a keyboard-driven Wayland tiling setup with deep, Lua-scriptable customization,", "cites": [{"id": 766467968, "item_id": 47904248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904248", "by": "gverrilla", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I encourage everyone using the ubuntu/windows paradigm to check this out instead.", "excerpt": "I use hyprland. And I navigate with ALT+? commands for the main apps I use, and alt+tab strictly to go back to previous workspace. I also have a task bar that I can also click to navigate when I need (on waybar). I love it. I'm never in some intermediate state like a view of all my workspaces, or holding alt tab to choose some workspace - it's always a single hotkey stroke. I also have 3 special workspaces that use a", "context": "", "use_case": "window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)"}, {"id": 799348704, "item_id": 49959294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959294", "by": "throooooo", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used to use XMonad (now on Hyprland)", "excerpt": "I used to use XMonad (now on Hyprland) and feel that the tiling window manager experience you can get on Linux doesn't have an equivalent on macos. KDE is solid but yeah it's plain jane.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "XMonad", "story": "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"}, {"id": 782590176, "item_id": 48911886, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911886", "by": "Havoc", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I just use it to tile stuff. Think I selected it over sway & i3 due to wayland support at the time.", "excerpt": "Spartan...haha...I mean it's all relative. Certain relative to the other two boxes I use daily - macos & win. I do know it is favoured by ricers with animations & transparency but I just use it to tile stuff. Think I selected it over sway & i3 due to wayland support at the time. Not sure.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"}, {"id": 790950450, "item_id": 49434403, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434403", "by": "xiphias2", "date": "2026-08-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hyprland with its Lua support", "excerpt": "Just Beelink, but it doesn't matter at all. I ordered an ASUS Zephyrus G16 with 5090 NVIDIA card + 1.9kg (quite an overkill, and I know that I will have to limit power output), but hasn't arrived yet. But what's fun is that I love QML+QuickShell with its hot reloading, Hyprland with its Lua support. With AI nowdays it's just so easy to do deep UI changes that wasn't possible a year ago.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}, {"id": 783791024, "item_id": 48986939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986939", "by": "sureglymop", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Now it's all a single simple lua function and 3x as fast... I think this change is great.", "excerpt": "It's interesting because this is exactly what I used to do for my hyprland config (which the op is about). I had some keybinds that would shell out and use a script with the hyprctl cli. Now it's all a single simple lua function and 3x as fast... I think this change is great.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager config", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}]}, {"text": " and some say they can't go back after the adjustment period.", "cites": [{"id": 734872832, "item_id": 45929552, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929552", "by": "theoldgreybeard", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Switched to Hyprland about a month ago.  Wasn't feeling it at first but after a few weeks I don't think I can go back.", "excerpt": "Switched to Hyprland about a month ago. Wasn't feeling it at first but after a few weeks I don't think I can go back.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moving Back to a Tiling WM \u2013 XMonad"}, {"id": 782569984, "item_id": 48910624, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910624", "by": "Havoc", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Using Wayland (hyprland) for daily driver and it's the happiest I've been with an OS in a long time on feel.", "excerpt": "Using Wayland (hyprland) for daily driver and it's the happiest I've been with an OS in a long time on feel. Feels crisp in that spartan way that windows & macos just don't - no animations, taskbar, popups or god knows what else.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver desktop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is the effort it demands:", "cites": [{"id": 797254177, "item_id": 49828386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828386", "by": "Oxodao", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it", "excerpt": "Yeah and when change do occur, its for the worse (e.g. Gnome) > Why bother to learn a new UI, when all that does is get you back to square 1, and it might not even stick around Exactly. That's why I gave up and stay on i3 and the common tools I use. I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it even if the common user would think they're pretty s", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"}, {"id": 783865329, "item_id": 48991583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991583", "by": "hackeraccount", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with.", "excerpt": "You're like a smarter more articulate version of me. I used to use Sway - switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with. Niri on the other hand is as complicated as I want it to be.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "Sway", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 772166003, "item_id": 48260375, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260375", "by": "tim-projects", "date": "2026-05-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "hyperland takes forever to figure out and uses way more ram. No thanks", "excerpt": "I've been using arch + open box since 2011. Now switched to cachyos + labwc (Wayland version of open box). Every once in a while I try something else realise what an absolute bloated mess it is and come back. A long time ago maybe 18 years back I used wmii which did tiling and it was reasonable (you could still resize with a mouse) Why do you need tiling for anything that isn't s terminal? Just use tmux or ghostty? I", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Your Dotfiles Are Not a Distro"}]}, {"text": " some found it busy, painful to work with or RAM-hungry,", "cites": [{"id": 783865329, "item_id": 48991583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991583", "by": "hackeraccount", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with.", "excerpt": "You're like a smarter more articulate version of me. I used to use Sway - switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with. Niri on the other hand is as complicated as I want it to be.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "Sway", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 797254177, "item_id": 49828386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828386", "by": "Oxodao", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it", "excerpt": "Yeah and when change do occur, its for the worse (e.g. Gnome) > Why bother to learn a new UI, when all that does is get you back to square 1, and it might not even stick around Exactly. That's why I gave up and stay on i3 and the common tools I use. I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it even if the common user would think they're pretty s", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"}, {"id": 772166003, "item_id": 48260375, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260375", "by": "tim-projects", "date": "2026-05-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "hyperland takes forever to figure out and uses way more ram. No thanks", "excerpt": "I've been using arch + open box since 2011. Now switched to cachyos + labwc (Wayland version of open box). Every once in a while I try something else realise what an absolute bloated mess it is and come back. A long time ago maybe 18 years back I used wmii which did tiling and it was reasonable (you could still resize with a mouse) Why do you need tiling for anything that isn't s terminal? Just use tmux or ghostty? I", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Your Dotfiles Are Not a Distro"}]}, {"text": " and moved to i3, Niri, labwc or River instead.", "cites": [{"id": 797254177, "item_id": 49828386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828386", "by": "Oxodao", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it", "excerpt": "Yeah and when change do occur, its for the worse (e.g. Gnome) > Why bother to learn a new UI, when all that does is get you back to square 1, and it might not even stick around Exactly. That's why I gave up and stay on i3 and the common tools I use. I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it even if the common user would think they're pretty s", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"}, {"id": 783865329, "item_id": 48991583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991583", "by": "hackeraccount", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with.", "excerpt": "You're like a smarter more articulate version of me. I used to use Sway - switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with. Niri on the other hand is as complicated as I want it to be.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "Sway", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 772166003, "item_id": 48260375, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260375", "by": "tim-projects", "date": "2026-05-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "hyperland takes forever to figure out and uses way more ram. No thanks", "excerpt": "I've been using arch + open box since 2011. Now switched to cachyos + labwc (Wayland version of open box). Every once in a while I try something else realise what an absolute bloated mess it is and come back. A long time ago maybe 18 years back I used wmii which did tiling and it was reasonable (you could still resize with a mouse) Why do you need tiling for anything that isn't s terminal? Just use tmux or ghostty? I", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Your Dotfiles Are Not a Distro"}, {"id": 758239553, "item_id": 47389972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389972", "by": "oofbaroomf", "date": "2026-03-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland", "excerpt": "I'm currently using a fully vibe-coded, personal River window manager that works just how I want it to. I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland (e.g. tile windows to equal areas instead of BSP by default). Simple example of how impactful this separation has been for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Customization", "summary": "Commenters build unique setups, and Lua support makes deep config changes easy and fast.", "quotes": [{"id": 790950450, "item_id": 49434403, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434403", "by": "xiphias2", "date": "2026-08-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hyprland with its Lua support", "excerpt": "Just Beelink, but it doesn't matter at all. I ordered an ASUS Zephyrus G16 with 5090 NVIDIA card + 1.9kg (quite an overkill, and I know that I will have to limit power output), but hasn't arrived yet. But what's fun is that I love QML+QuickShell with its hot reloading, Hyprland with its Lua support. With AI nowdays it's just so easy to do deep UI changes that wasn't possible a year ago.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}, {"id": 783791024, "item_id": 48986939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986939", "by": "sureglymop", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Now it's all a single simple lua function and 3x as fast... I think this change is great.", "excerpt": "It's interesting because this is exactly what I used to do for my hyprland config (which the op is about). I had some keybinds that would shell out and use a script with the hyprctl cli. Now it's all a single simple lua function and 3x as fast... I think this change is great.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager config", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 802818832, "item_id": 50176177, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50176177", "by": "dlivingston", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use hyprland with a pretty unique setup.", "excerpt": "The default is a bare-bones GNOME desktop manger (think Ubuntu if you're not familiar). But of course you could customize it to look like any distro or even something totally new; I use hyprland with a pretty unique setup.", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop on NixOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "NixOS is making me less afraid"}]}, {"label": "Tiling workflow", "summary": "Its keyboard-driven tiling and hotkey workspaces are described as a better workflow than macOS or Windows.", "quotes": [{"id": 766467968, "item_id": 47904248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904248", "by": "gverrilla", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I encourage everyone using the ubuntu/windows paradigm to check this out instead.", "excerpt": "I use hyprland. And I navigate with ALT+? commands for the main apps I use, and alt+tab strictly to go back to previous workspace. I also have a task bar that I can also click to navigate when I need (on waybar). I love it. I'm never in some intermediate state like a view of all my workspaces, or holding alt tab to choose some workspace - it's always a single hotkey stroke. I also have 3 special workspaces that use a", "context": "", "use_case": "window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)"}, {"id": 799348704, "item_id": 49959294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959294", "by": "throooooo", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used to use XMonad (now on Hyprland)", "excerpt": "I used to use XMonad (now on Hyprland) and feel that the tiling window manager experience you can get on Linux doesn't have an equivalent on macos. KDE is solid but yeah it's plain jane.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "XMonad", "story": "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"}, {"id": 760305234, "item_id": 47519077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519077", "by": "CafeRacer", "date": "2026-03-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "nixos/asahi on m2 with hyprland gives me a workflow that is superior.", "excerpt": "I have FP6 with eOS, it's fine and works well. One thing that I can't do is use my phone to pay, e.g. Apple Pay. You can't install Google Wallet - it does not work, but also defeats degoogle mindset. There were curve company that people seem to have used in the past, but seems like the company was sold to someone and now it's dead. So I have to use physical card like a boomer. --- My story is similar, somehow my air ", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Just Lost Me"}]}, {"label": "Look and feel", "summary": "Users call it beautiful and crisp, and one is the happiest they have been with an OS in years.", "quotes": [{"id": 791731777, "item_id": 49483236, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483236", "by": "godelski", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "these things aren't only highly usable, they're absolutely beautiful", "excerpt": "I'm surprised there's only a single mention of tiling window managers here. No talk about i3[0] or hyprland[1]? I mean these things aren't only highly usable, they're absolutely beautiful[2]. I'll also add that being keyboard driven helps people with disabilities AND makes things easier for AI agents. For exactly the same reason too. It's far easier for programs to hit key codes than try to determine pixel locations ", "context": "power user who lives in the terminal", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"}, {"id": 782569984, "item_id": 48910624, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910624", "by": "Havoc", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Using Wayland (hyprland) for daily driver and it's the happiest I've been with an OS in a long time on feel.", "excerpt": "Using Wayland (hyprland) for daily driver and it's the happiest I've been with an OS in a long time on feel. Feels crisp in that spartan way that windows & macos just don't - no animations, taskbar, popups or god knows what else.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver desktop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"}, {"id": 734872832, "item_id": 45929552, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929552", "by": "theoldgreybeard", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Switched to Hyprland about a month ago.  Wasn't feeling it at first but after a few weeks I don't think I can go back.", "excerpt": "Switched to Hyprland about a month ago. Wasn't feeling it at first but after a few weeks I don't think I can go back.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moving Back to a Tiling WM \u2013 XMonad"}]}, {"label": "Enthusiast appeal", "summary": "It is credited with exciting people about Linux and ricing their desktops.", "quotes": [{"id": 793664448, "item_id": 49604028, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604028", "by": "IslandRebel", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hyprland was/is something that excites people.", "excerpt": "The Linux community needs to embrace being something for the enthusiast. If you look at things that have got people interested in Linux. It wasn't just that Windows 11 is awful, because a lot of people just install Windows 11 LTSC and call it a day. Hyprland was/is something that excites people. There was a lot of hype around Omarchy (I don't care about the guys' politics, and please don't bring it up; I find the dis", "context": "", "use_case": "Linux desktop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers"}, {"id": 786659777, "item_id": 49166236, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166236", "by": "nvrmndmnm", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "she now runs Arch Linux with Hyprland", "excerpt": "I ran a similar test and got completely different results. My girlfriend (hair stylist/artist) with zero coding background mentioned a Telegram bot idea. I asked \"Why not build it yourself?\" I gave her a Windows laptop, but she said she wanted what I have instead. So I handed her a USB stick and told her she was on her own now. Fast forward: she now runs Arch Linux with Hyprland (I use Xorg/i3 though), fully riced wi", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs reward expertise"}, {"id": 749144403, "item_id": 46821525, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821525", "by": "S0und", "date": "2026-01-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This kinda shows the power of independent projects like Hyprland and Niri.", "excerpt": "I've switched my work laptop from W10 to Fedora about 9 months ago, using KDE during this time. The past month switched to Niri + DMS and I'm extremely happy, which is odd to say. I've a stacked external monitor setup 2 x 4k monitors on top of each other. Top one is the main, runs mostly just the IDE. The bottom one with 7 named workspaces: - chat: teams / discord - work: assisting workspace for Main screen - git : s", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers"}]}, {"label": "Works on Asahi", "summary": "It runs well on Apple Silicon Macs under Asahi Linux after configuration.", "quotes": [{"id": 780215200, "item_id": 48763450, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763450", "by": "rowanG077", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use hyprland and runs fine after configuration.", "excerpt": "I use DP alt mode and also the HDMI port to drive two screens. I use hyprland and runs fine after configuration. My battery certainly last a few hours. I use it as any other laptop I had before and use it daily on trains. So I cannot at all agree with your POV that it's a desktop. The battery is working without problems.", "context": "Asahi Linux user on a Mac", "use_case": "window manager on Asahi Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"}, {"id": 760305234, "item_id": 47519077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519077", "by": "CafeRacer", "date": "2026-03-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "nixos/asahi on m2 with hyprland gives me a workflow that is superior.", "excerpt": "I have FP6 with eOS, it's fine and works well. One thing that I can't do is use my phone to pay, e.g. Apple Pay. You can't install Google Wallet - it does not work, but also defeats degoogle mindset. There were curve company that people seem to have used in the past, but seems like the company was sold to someone and now it's dead. So I have to use physical card like a boomer. --- My story is similar, somehow my air ", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Just Lost Me"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Steep effort", "summary": "Some found it painful, busy or slow to figure out and went back to simpler setups.", "quotes": [{"id": 797254177, "item_id": 49828386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828386", "by": "Oxodao", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it", "excerpt": "Yeah and when change do occur, its for the worse (e.g. Gnome) > Why bother to learn a new UI, when all that does is get you back to square 1, and it might not even stick around Exactly. That's why I gave up and stay on i3 and the common tools I use. I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it even if the common user would think they're pretty s", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"}, {"id": 783865329, "item_id": 48991583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991583", "by": "hackeraccount", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with.", "excerpt": "You're like a smarter more articulate version of me. I used to use Sway - switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with. Niri on the other hand is as complicated as I want it to be.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "Sway", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 772166003, "item_id": 48260375, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260375", "by": "tim-projects", "date": "2026-05-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "hyperland takes forever to figure out and uses way more ram. No thanks", "excerpt": "I've been using arch + open box since 2011. Now switched to cachyos + labwc (Wayland version of open box). Every once in a while I try something else realise what an absolute bloated mess it is and come back. A long time ago maybe 18 years back I used wmii which did tiling and it was reasonable (you could still resize with a mouse) Why do you need tiling for anything that isn't s terminal? Just use tmux or ghostty? I", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Your Dotfiles Are Not a Distro"}]}, {"label": "Needs configuring", "summary": "Commenters disliked many defaults and say it only runs well after configuration.", "quotes": [{"id": 790274241, "item_id": 49392140, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392140", "by": "jsuth", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'm still deciding how I feel about hyprland.", "excerpt": "I think tiling makes much less sense on a laptop and more sense when you use a large display. I had a similar experience initially. I disliked many of the defaults. But it's quite easy to use an agent to customize everything to your liking. And I haven't really run into a situation where I couldn't accomplish what I wanted. I'm still deciding how I feel about hyprland. I use a unique hyperkey shortcut to focus each a", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M"}, {"id": 780215200, "item_id": 48763450, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763450", "by": "rowanG077", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use hyprland and runs fine after configuration.", "excerpt": "I use DP alt mode and also the HDMI port to drive two screens. I use hyprland and runs fine after configuration. My battery certainly last a few hours. I use it as any other laptop I had before and use it daily on trains. So I cannot at all agree with your POV that it's a desktop. The battery is working without problems.", "context": "Asahi Linux user on a Mac", "use_case": "window manager on Asahi Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"}]}, {"label": "Layout limits", "summary": "One user could not tile windows to equal areas instead of the BSP default and switched to River.", "quotes": [{"id": 758239553, "item_id": 47389972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389972", "by": "oofbaroomf", "date": "2026-03-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland", "excerpt": "I'm currently using a fully vibe-coded, personal River window manager that works just how I want it to. I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland (e.g. tile windows to equal areas instead of BSP by default). Simple example of how impactful this separation has been for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager"}]}, {"label": "Resource usage", "summary": "One commenter says it uses far more RAM than a lightweight stacking compositor.", "quotes": [{"id": 772166003, "item_id": 48260375, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260375", "by": "tim-projects", "date": "2026-05-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "hyperland takes forever to figure out and uses way more ram. No thanks", "excerpt": "I've been using arch + open box since 2011. Now switched to cachyos + labwc (Wayland version of open box). Every once in a while I try something else realise what an absolute bloated mess it is and come back. A long time ago maybe 18 years back I used wmii which did tiling and it was reasonable (you could still resize with a mouse) Why do you need tiling for anything that isn't s terminal? Just use tmux or ghostty? I", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Your Dotfiles Are Not a Distro"}]}, {"label": "Config format", "summary": "One commenter prefers Niri's standard KDL config over Hyprland's own format.", "quotes": [{"id": 783763473, "item_id": 48985217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985217", "by": "nickjj", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "compare", "quote": "It's neat that Hyprland lets you define layouts in its config but I like niri's approach.", "excerpt": "It's neat that Hyprland lets you define layouts in its config but I like niri's approach. It uses KDL (an established document / config language) and slightly extends it to add useful things like being able to include files. For example, here's mine: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice/blob/master/.config/niri/config.kdl What you end up with is a config file that's natural to read with no prior knowledge about any", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}]}, {"label": "Tooling gaps", "summary": "Basic tasks like screenshots needed extra tools or scripts, and one user patched it to work around a VM GPU issue.", "quotes": [{"id": 742935798, "item_id": 46433487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46433487", "by": "codevogel_com", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recently switched over to Nix with Hyprland as my WM.", "excerpt": "I recently switched over to Nix with Hyprland as my WM. I tried looking for a simple tool that allowed me to capture screenshots like I would in Windows and Linux Mint using `SUPER+SHIFT+S`, so I could quickly paste them into Discord and whatnot. I found a couple of tools such as hyprshot and hyprcap, and read some articles about taking screenshots with slurp and grim, but I couldn't really find a tool that felt like", "context": "Nix with Hyprland user", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "'peck' \u2013 easy screenshots and screen captures on Wayland"}, {"id": 747641140, "item_id": 46727571, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727571", "by": "andrewbastin", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I patched Hyprland locally in my config", "excerpt": "I run NixOS within VMWare Fusion (Mitchell Hashimoto has posted something similar https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config) in my M4 Max MBP. It runs pretty well but may hit the battery life sometimes. There are some weird stuff that happens with their GPU accelaration and random Fusion crashes sometimes. I patched Hyprland locally in my config due to a weird (but documented) issue with their GPU accelaration implem", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's the best virtual Linux desktop experience on macOS for devs?"}]}], "who": [{"by": "godelski", "context": "power user who lives in the terminal", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483236", "date": "2026-08-28"}, {"by": "prhn", "context": "plays competitive fighting games", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909947", "date": "2026-07-14"}, {"by": "rowanG077", "context": "Asahi Linux user on a Mac", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763450", "date": "2026-07-02"}, {"by": "nickjj", "context": "switched from Windows to Linux", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105297", "date": "2026-02-21"}, {"by": "codevogel_com", "context": "Nix with Hyprland user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46433487", "date": "2025-12-30"}, {"by": "BimJeam", "context": "Hyprland fan", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178040", "date": "2025-12-06"}], "tags": ["for keyboard-driven users", "for Wayland users", "for desktop ricers", "for Asahi Linux on Macs", "for NixOS users"], "use_cases": ["window manager", "tiling window manager", "desktop on nixos", "linux desktop", "window manager config", "daily driver desktop"], "compared": [{"slug": "niri", "name": "niri", "co": 8, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "i3", "name": "i3", "co": 6, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "sway", "name": "Sway", "co": 5, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "aerospace", "name": "AeroSpace", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "nixos", "name": "NixOS", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "omarchy", "name": "Omarchy", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "macos", "name": "macOS", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "windows", "name": "Windows", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982011", "title": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909424", "title": "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165484", "title": "NixOS is making me less afraid", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116", "title": "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825642", "title": "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594251", "title": "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 2}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 2}}, "quotes": [{"id": 802818832, "item_id": 50176177, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50176177", "by": "dlivingston", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use hyprland with a pretty unique setup.", "excerpt": "The default is a bare-bones GNOME desktop manger (think Ubuntu if you're not familiar). But of course you could customize it to look like any distro or even something totally new; I use hyprland with a pretty unique setup.", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop on NixOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "NixOS is making me less afraid"}, {"id": 799348704, "item_id": 49959294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959294", "by": "throooooo", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used to use XMonad (now on Hyprland)", "excerpt": "I used to use XMonad (now on Hyprland) and feel that the tiling window manager experience you can get on Linux doesn't have an equivalent on macos. KDE is solid but yeah it's plain jane.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "XMonad", "story": "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"}, {"id": 797254177, "item_id": 49828386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828386", "by": "Oxodao", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it", "excerpt": "Yeah and when change do occur, its for the worse (e.g. Gnome) > Why bother to learn a new UI, when all that does is get you back to square 1, and it might not even stick around Exactly. That's why I gave up and stay on i3 and the common tools I use. I've been for a few month under hyprland and yeah no I'll go back to X11+i3 the pain it provides is just not worth it even if the common user would think they're pretty s", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"}, {"id": 793664448, "item_id": 49604028, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604028", "by": "IslandRebel", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hyprland was/is something that excites people.", "excerpt": "The Linux community needs to embrace being something for the enthusiast. If you look at things that have got people interested in Linux. It wasn't just that Windows 11 is awful, because a lot of people just install Windows 11 LTSC and call it a day. Hyprland was/is something that excites people. There was a lot of hype around Omarchy (I don't care about the guys' politics, and please don't bring it up; I find the dis", "context": "", "use_case": "Linux desktop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers"}, {"id": 791731777, "item_id": 49483236, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483236", "by": "godelski", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "these things aren't only highly usable, they're absolutely beautiful", "excerpt": "I'm surprised there's only a single mention of tiling window managers here. No talk about i3[0] or hyprland[1]? I mean these things aren't only highly usable, they're absolutely beautiful[2]. I'll also add that being keyboard driven helps people with disabilities AND makes things easier for AI agents. For exactly the same reason too. It's far easier for programs to hit key codes than try to determine pixel locations ", "context": "power user who lives in the terminal", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"}, {"id": 790950450, "item_id": 49434403, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434403", "by": "xiphias2", "date": "2026-08-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hyprland with its Lua support", "excerpt": "Just Beelink, but it doesn't matter at all. I ordered an ASUS Zephyrus G16 with 5090 NVIDIA card + 1.9kg (quite an overkill, and I know that I will have to limit power output), but hasn't arrived yet. But what's fun is that I love QML+QuickShell with its hot reloading, Hyprland with its Lua support. With AI nowdays it's just so easy to do deep UI changes that wasn't possible a year ago.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}, {"id": 790274241, "item_id": 49392140, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392140", "by": "jsuth", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'm still deciding how I feel about hyprland.", "excerpt": "I think tiling makes much less sense on a laptop and more sense when you use a large display. I had a similar experience initially. I disliked many of the defaults. But it's quite easy to use an agent to customize everything to your liking. And I haven't really run into a situation where I couldn't accomplish what I wanted. I'm still deciding how I feel about hyprland. I use a unique hyperkey shortcut to focus each a", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M"}, {"id": 786659777, "item_id": 49166236, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166236", "by": "nvrmndmnm", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "she now runs Arch Linux with Hyprland", "excerpt": "I ran a similar test and got completely different results. My girlfriend (hair stylist/artist) with zero coding background mentioned a Telegram bot idea. I asked \"Why not build it yourself?\" I gave her a Windows laptop, but she said she wanted what I have instead. So I handed her a USB stick and told her she was on her own now. Fast forward: she now runs Arch Linux with Hyprland (I use Xorg/i3 though), fully riced wi", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs reward expertise"}, {"id": 783865329, "item_id": 48991583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991583", "by": "hackeraccount", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with.", "excerpt": "You're like a smarter more articulate version of me. I used to use Sway - switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with. Niri on the other hand is as complicated as I want it to be.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "Sway", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 783791024, "item_id": 48986939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986939", "by": "sureglymop", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Now it's all a single simple lua function and 3x as fast... I think this change is great.", "excerpt": "It's interesting because this is exactly what I used to do for my hyprland config (which the op is about). I had some keybinds that would shell out and use a script with the hyprctl cli. Now it's all a single simple lua function and 3x as fast... I think this change is great.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager config", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 783763473, "item_id": 48985217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985217", "by": "nickjj", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "compare", "quote": "It's neat that Hyprland lets you define layouts in its config but I like niri's approach.", "excerpt": "It's neat that Hyprland lets you define layouts in its config but I like niri's approach. It uses KDL (an established document / config language) and slightly extends it to add useful things like being able to include files. For example, here's mine: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice/blob/master/.config/niri/config.kdl What you end up with is a config file that's natural to read with no prior knowledge about any", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 783729969, "item_id": 48983123, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983123", "by": "honeycrispy", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "compare", "quote": "This makes me want to port my config to hyprland and give it a shot tbh.", "excerpt": "I have to agree. There are things that I want to do with my sway scratchpad in sway that are just not possible because the config vocab is so limited. This makes me want to port my config to hyprland and give it a shot tbh.", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 782590176, "item_id": 48911886, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911886", "by": "Havoc", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I just use it to tile stuff. Think I selected it over sway & i3 due to wayland support at the time.", "excerpt": "Spartan...haha...I mean it's all relative. Certain relative to the other two boxes I use daily - macos & win. I do know it is favoured by ricers with animations & transparency but I just use it to tile stuff. Think I selected it over sway & i3 due to wayland support at the time. Not sure.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"}, {"id": 782569984, "item_id": 48910624, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910624", "by": "Havoc", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Using Wayland (hyprland) for daily driver and it's the happiest I've been with an OS in a long time on feel.", "excerpt": "Using Wayland (hyprland) for daily driver and it's the happiest I've been with an OS in a long time on feel. Feels crisp in that spartan way that windows & macos just don't - no animations, taskbar, popups or god knows what else.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver desktop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"}, {"id": 782559153, "item_id": 48909947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909947", "by": "prhn", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I recently switched to hyprland", "excerpt": "Awesome article. I switched my daily driver / gaming rig to Fedora a few months back. Everything seems snappier compared to Windows, but not sure if it\u2019s in my head, and I\u2019ve been very curious about gaming input latency. This helps answer some questions. I recently switched to hyprland and I\u2019m very interested how that fits in these results. hyprland uses Wayland so I hope the author might revisit now that hyprland is", "context": "plays competitive fighting games", "use_case": "Wayland compositor for gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"}, {"id": 780215200, "item_id": 48763450, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763450", "by": "rowanG077", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use hyprland and runs fine after configuration.", "excerpt": "I use DP alt mode and also the HDMI port to drive two screens. I use hyprland and runs fine after configuration. My battery certainly last a few hours. I use it as any other laptop I had before and use it daily on trains. So I cannot at all agree with your POV that it's a desktop. The battery is working without problems.", "context": "Asahi Linux user on a Mac", "use_case": "window manager on Asahi Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"}, {"id": 777469889, "item_id": 48591868, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591868", "by": "gchamonlive", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Hyprland config is tracked but device specific configs live in .config/hype/config/device.conf", "excerpt": "> The trouble is that symlinks cut both ways. Every edit on every machine writes straight through the link into that machine\u2019s clone of the repo I have stow too in my micro DE, use it across a few machines and it's holding up really well. I designed my dotfiles so that changes would happens exclusively to files not tracked by stow. I have .zshrc tracked, but environment goes to .zshenv and general local customisation", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"}, {"id": 775610657, "item_id": 48475666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475666", "by": "tskulbru", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "on my Linux desktop setup using Hyprland and Waybar", "excerpt": "Im using https://github.com/mryll/claudebar myself on my Linux desktop setup using Hyprland and Waybar. Will try this one out on my laptop though!", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota"}, {"id": 773567940, "item_id": 48347996, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347996", "by": "gchamonlive", "date": "2026-05-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "micro desktop environment on top of hyprland called Archie", "excerpt": "Your tone makes me think you already decided that agents aren't worth your time, but I'll give it a try anyways. I work as a DevOps engineer and have been using agents exclusively to code since the beginning of the year. Agents are really nice to quickly craft utilities to speed up planning. For instance I had it create a small cli for me that'll pull my cards from azure DevOps, load them as json, markdown and csv, a", "context": "", "use_case": "base for custom desktop", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"}, {"id": 773406931, "item_id": 48337933, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337933", "by": "krschacht", "date": "2026-05-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "get close to the level of customization I had in hyprland", "excerpt": "In the last 18 months I tried a Framework twice and both times ended up returning it. I was running Arch both times and had too many low level issues. I couldn\u2019t get hibernation or sleep to work reliably. And about once a week I\u2019d get a random freeze or crash that required me to reboot and lose all the windows I had open. I spent dozens of hours with Claude chasing things down, disabling various power management feat", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"}, {"id": 772166003, "item_id": 48260375, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260375", "by": "tim-projects", "date": "2026-05-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "hyperland takes forever to figure out and uses way more ram. No thanks", "excerpt": "I've been using arch + open box since 2011. Now switched to cachyos + labwc (Wayland version of open box). Every once in a while I try something else realise what an absolute bloated mess it is and come back. A long time ago maybe 18 years back I used wmii which did tiling and it was reasonable (you could still resize with a mouse) Why do you need tiling for anything that isn't s terminal? Just use tmux or ghostty? I", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Your Dotfiles Are Not a Distro"}, {"id": 766467968, "item_id": 47904248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904248", "by": "gverrilla", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I encourage everyone using the ubuntu/windows paradigm to check this out instead.", "excerpt": "I use hyprland. And I navigate with ALT+? commands for the main apps I use, and alt+tab strictly to go back to previous workspace. I also have a task bar that I can also click to navigate when I need (on waybar). I love it. I'm never in some intermediate state like a view of all my workspaces, or holding alt tab to choose some workspace - it's always a single hotkey stroke. I also have 3 special workspaces that use a", "context": "", "use_case": "window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)"}, {"id": 762534065, "item_id": 47658379, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658379", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-04-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used to be on hyprland too and it was really good too", "excerpt": "I had once lost my LUKS encryption key to StackOverflow effectively making me lose all the data that I had within that disk. It was only when I had scrolled down the article AFTER running the command, that I saw warning: your data will be unrecoverable and I panicked (I then used chatgpt but to no avail, and I feel like it might've made things worse even) Anyhow, I think a larger lesson is to have a full context on w", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "A Tale of AI Betrayal and Snapshotting Victory"}, {"id": 760305234, "item_id": 47519077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519077", "by": "CafeRacer", "date": "2026-03-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "nixos/asahi on m2 with hyprland gives me a workflow that is superior.", "excerpt": "I have FP6 with eOS, it's fine and works well. One thing that I can't do is use my phone to pay, e.g. Apple Pay. You can't install Google Wallet - it does not work, but also defeats degoogle mindset. There were curve company that people seem to have used in the past, but seems like the company was sold to someone and now it's dead. So I have to use physical card like a boomer. --- My story is similar, somehow my air ", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Just Lost Me"}, {"id": 758239553, "item_id": 47389972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389972", "by": "oofbaroomf", "date": "2026-03-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland", "excerpt": "I'm currently using a fully vibe-coded, personal River window manager that works just how I want it to. I switched to it after I realized I couldn't do everything I wanted in Hyprland (e.g. tile windows to equal areas instead of BSP by default). Simple example of how impactful this separation has been for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager"}, {"id": 753684754, "item_id": 47105297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105297", "by": "nickjj", "date": "2026-02-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "So did Hyprland.", "excerpt": "I wish they included the window compositor as something that can introduce latency because I'd like to learn more about it. When I switched from Windows to Linux on the same hardware I noticed a lot of keyboard input latency when playing games, at least 150ms. This only happens to me with niri, KDE Plasma (Wayland) feels identical to Windows. So did Hyprland. I'm able to reproduce it on multiple systems when I have a", "context": "switched from Windows to Linux", "use_case": "gaming desktop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Inputlag.science \u2013 Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming"}, {"id": 749144403, "item_id": 46821525, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821525", "by": "S0und", "date": "2026-01-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This kinda shows the power of independent projects like Hyprland and Niri.", "excerpt": "I've switched my work laptop from W10 to Fedora about 9 months ago, using KDE during this time. The past month switched to Niri + DMS and I'm extremely happy, which is odd to say. I've a stacked external monitor setup 2 x 4k monitors on top of each other. Top one is the main, runs mostly just the IDE. The bottom one with 7 named workspaces: - chat: teams / discord - work: assisting workspace for Main screen - git : s", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers"}, {"id": 747641140, "item_id": 46727571, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727571", "by": "andrewbastin", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I patched Hyprland locally in my config", "excerpt": "I run NixOS within VMWare Fusion (Mitchell Hashimoto has posted something similar https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config) in my M4 Max MBP. It runs pretty well but may hit the battery life sometimes. There are some weird stuff that happens with their GPU accelaration and random Fusion crashes sometimes. I patched Hyprland locally in my config due to a weird (but documented) issue with their GPU accelaration implem", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's the best virtual Linux desktop experience on macOS for devs?"}, {"id": 742935798, "item_id": 46433487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46433487", "by": "codevogel_com", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recently switched over to Nix with Hyprland as my WM.", "excerpt": "I recently switched over to Nix with Hyprland as my WM. I tried looking for a simple tool that allowed me to capture screenshots like I would in Windows and Linux Mint using `SUPER+SHIFT+S`, so I could quickly paste them into Discord and whatnot. I found a couple of tools such as hyprshot and hyprcap, and read some articles about taking screenshots with slurp and grim, but I couldn't really find a tool that felt like", "context": "Nix with Hyprland user", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "'peck' \u2013 easy screenshots and screen captures on Wayland"}, {"id": 738848641, "item_id": 46178040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178040", "by": "BimJeam", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As a fan of Hyprland", "excerpt": "Tell me what you think of it. As a fan of Hyprland I just built a launcher that is a little bit more ambitious. Thanks for linux, I love you guys!", "context": "Hyprland fan", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "HyprTile \u2013 a new app launcher for the Hyprland ecosystem"}, {"id": 737469745, "item_id": 46091859, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091859", "by": "LelouBil", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I even have a \"fork\" of sorts that adds Hyprland + all of my \"desktop\" config", "excerpt": "Great distro ! I have been using it for the last 2 years on my Framework laptop 16 without any issues. I even have a \"fork\" of sorts that adds Hyprland + all of my \"desktop\" config, which I think as being part of the OS. I really think immutable distributions are the future of linux desktop, and maybe distributions that use OCI images, beacause they are a lot easier to work with than say, NixOS for example. If you wa", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"}, {"id": 734872832, "item_id": 45929552, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929552", "by": "theoldgreybeard", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Switched to Hyprland about a month ago.  Wasn't feeling it at first but after a few weeks I don't think I can go back.", "excerpt": "Switched to Hyprland about a month ago. Wasn't feeling it at first but after a few weeks I don't think I can go back.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moving Back to a Tiling WM \u2013 XMonad"}]}