Hyprland

You see https://git.outfoxxed.me/quickshell/quickshell (GNU LGPL 3) https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland (BSD) https://github.com/jdx/mise (MIT) are not really foss

Ghostty turned on Discussions and made it the first place for users to go report bugs, make feature requests, etc., then promotes those to issues once it's detailed enough for the maintainers to accept: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558 Later, Hyprland followed suit: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/9854 I'm sure there are other projects doing the same, but those are the two I know about off the top of my head.

What makes me not want to use Hyprland is that the code has all kind of "YOLO" tells, the kind of ones that make you wonder if something is going to happen some say... for example: - https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/00da4450db9bab1abfda... - https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/00da4450db9bab1abfda... - https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/00da4450db9bab1abfda...

I only need to look at one file[1] (context[2], and it used to be worse[3]) to decide that I don't really want Hyprland, or anything else from that quick-and-dirty culture of software dev, on my system. Encouraging plugins to hook any function or method in a C++ program is insane. I'd be surprised if a Hyprland setup with multiple plugins could ever not be alpha-quality. [1]: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/e999ad664da9/src/plu... [2]: https://wiki.hypr.land/Plugins/Development/Advanced/ [3]: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/a5a648091760/src/plu...

and yet hyprland uses a CoC? https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT... I joined the hyprland discord after seeing many reports of hyprland having a "toxic" community to verify the claims myself, I must say I'm disappointed. I expected to see some real raunchy stuff, instead it's quite literally one of the most trans-positive and otherwise politically milquetoast servers I'm in. The initial rules post you have to agree to before gaining access to the server has hundreds of reactions of various trans flag emotes too.[0] What's the problem here? The whole drama seems like virtue-signalling politically-correct FOSS devs attacking other politically-correct FOSS devs. [0] https://imgur.com/a/HKrFtbZ

For those on hyprland: [1] hyprslidr: https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr [2] hyprscroller: https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller Though need to extend hyprland to support layout outside viewport: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/5489

Hyprland builds using a pinned commit of wlroots instead of a tagged release because wlroots release schedule is too slow for Hyprland's development. [0] This turns into a problem for maintainers because many distributions refuse to ship non tagged versions of software. Hyprland used to depend on wlroots-git, but when it made the switch to use specific pinned commits instead, a lot more distributions started to package it [1], but some still refuse to do so such as Debian. [0] https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland/issues/302#issuecomment-1... [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_request...

I gave Hyprland a try some weeks/months ago, and seemingly it had a video memory leak where after some hours of usage, it ended up taking more than 5GB of VRAM, with no signs of slowing down. I found one issue (https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/2945) mentioning something similar, but no resolutions as of yet, so not sure what's going on. Gnome3 doesn't manifest the same issue, so worth checking out if it happens to you if you're curious about moving from Gnome to Hyprland.

> Hyprland https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland I loved the Special Thanks section.