So I’ve been using Linux for about a year and a half, have been using Window managers since a few wweks in, have been using Wayland for the last 3 months or so, and have been using Hyprland for about a month. I love it and I want to stick with it in the long term, but I need a distro that supports it.
My essential needs are:
Hyprland NWG-Look (for gtk themes) CMUS Thunar Ristretto bemenu j4-dmenu-desktop (can build from source) Vivaldi (can use deb/rpm/extra repo)
My main issue stems from the fact that:
I want Stability. As such, Arch (and derivatives) are out of the question.
I don’t like immutability. As such, NixOS is out of the question.
I’m concerned about the future of Fedora. It’s where I’m at right now, yet the telemetry proposal, if accepted, would mean I need to switch.
If you have any other distros that fit my criteria, please leave them below. I know void can take care of all of these, except Hyprland itself and while River is available (and River is amazing) I would prefer to run Hyprland instead.
are there any reasons to prefer hyprland over sway, that are not bells and whistles?
One word: tiling. And no, the autotiling script just doesn’t cut it. If I’m clicking something on Vivaldi on the left hand side, and I have a terminal on the right, but I also need thunar, my file manager, I would like it to open at the bottom of the stack, under the terminal, not under Vivaldi, where my mouse and focus are.
i know what you are talking about. that’s dynamic vs static tiling for you. dwm does it in a similar way
Yeah, but there’s different types of dynamic tiling. Personally, I want it to be like DWM’s attachbottom patch, where a new window appears at the bottom of the stack, jnstead lf the default in DWM and AwesomeWM, where a new window becomes a master window.
Sway… Just behaves weird at times. The tiling just never feels right and it never seems to do exactly what I want. Hyprland just feels better in its behavior. And it has cool animations!