Yeah, have not heard about any of these problems before this post...

I caved and used KDE on my last install, and boy do I miss Gnome.

Not that KDE is bad, but Gnome is just so my style.

The rare double ambiguity: "work on" and "work with" could both have two meanings with opposite effects in the sentence

I’m not sure what’s wrong with my config but almost every time I wake it from having the screens off (it doesn’t sleep because it’s my media PC too) plasma is just dead and may or may not boot up again. Running plasmashell —replace (or whatever the command is) doesn’t fix it every time.

I blame nvidia.

i use kde but i do like it heavily customised, im not going through 1000 config files to make it 1% smoother and to change the wallpaper tho

In an ideal world.

But in our world, newbies are being recommended:

• Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read .pacnew config files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS)
• A bunch of shell scripts and Hyprland config masquerading as a distro, made by a white supremacist and used to promote their brand (Omarchy 🤮)
• NixOS. I don't even known where to begin with this one.

To be 100% clear, I use and like CachyOS and Nix (home manager). CachyOS and NixOS are great projects with good technical performance toward their respective goals (good defaults and performance on Arch, and declarative configuration, respectively), but they are not beginner friendly.

Third top post of all time to r/r/unixporn is a slick hyprland + quickshell rice and they linked their dotfiles + configs. how is a brother to resist trying it?

I am a newbie with hyprland. Got introduced to it with a bog video, and because it was keyboard only, it was a good fit for my dell nuggetbook with a poor trackpad. It isn't my only machine, so I felt safe enough in doing so.

It has taken a bit of configuring the files, but I have really enjoyed the process of learning.

So for me it was a way of reviving a machine that was painful to use.

Also most rice I have seen are hyprland. Probably doesn't help

Yep, then they are going to complain and claim Linux isn't ready for then entire computing industry; not even grandmas just using a web browser.

Nazis mostly, but yes

I assume it's about hyprland changing the syntax for window rules like.. 6 days ago

Same. love niri though. I think I’m going to keep it

Niri gang represent!

I switched to niri recently, I think it's the best tiling window manager I've ever used

Dumbest thing in software imo, is when I see software that is obviously worthy of being out of v0 (beta, alpha, etc), stay in v0.

Though since it still is v0, I guess we can't expect much.

Not sure why it is, maybe there is a good reason, but the software functions well enough for a stable release, though at the same time, this is a very small scale operation with great ambitions and a big userbase. If you api needs to be updated, it's obviously much easier to just push a breaking change than to maintain a migration period.

There's a lot of nuance, but I'd like more software to just enter v1 when it works as intended and then breaking changes can increment the major version rather than staying in v0 which is harder to tell when a breaking change happens.

p.s. so far config changes in hyprland have only been a 5 min fix so i haven't experienced this fuss yet, maybe soon!

It really is a problem. I don't think I ever used another WM that broke config as much as Hyprland.

I tried to switch to Mango but it seems to behave weirdly to me with regards to the way focus changes or not when closing window with the keyboard. Not sure how to describe it but as much as I hate the attitude of the Hyprland developer it is the only compositor that behaved the way I expect. I do use the scroller plugin making it a little more like Niri but Niri itself doesn't behave like I like with multiple monitors and keybinds

I switched to in in December and was nicely surprised. I also do like real Mangos.