Hello good nerds,
I’m still in the distrohopping era and have decided to go for Tumbleweed as my second distro after running Garuda as my first distro. I recently came across Hyprland, and it looks rather nice and fluent. Got a few questions:
- Does anyone have any prior experience to installing Hyprland on OpenSuse?
- Is it better to run KDE for this or GNOME?
- Is Hyprland overrated? Are there any other alternatives?
Thanks for any insights!
Hyprland is decent, it’s one of the better Wayland window managers, that being said it’s still in beta and not complete. Also be aware, it’s a window manager, not a desktop environment. It won’t do much besides well managing windows, taskbar, start menu, notification demon,… have to all be installed and setup by you and the config is done in text files, not some gui.
Also the community is rather toxic, I’ve made similar experiences to this in the past when trying it out.
Everything in the post you linked has been addressed BTW
Thanks for that - do you have something up to date I can read about the state of the Hyprland community? I’ve been tempted to use it for a while but I was put off by the community vibe.
Yeah I read something about that, I tend to stay clear of most things and mind my own little business hehe, but thanks for the heads up
Hyprland is great but if you do not have experience with it I would advise you to install KDE or Gnome while you build configs and workflows for it.
About how does it behave in OpenSuse I can’t say nothing about it, but the guys at SUSE are all about stability, so as long as it is in the official repos you should be fine, otherwise third party repos might do fine as well.
It seems to be available in Factory nowadays. Add the X11:Wayland repo for faster updates. You probably also want to install xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland.
I have my own packages in OBS where I occasionally build the latest git version - initially I’ve been updating it every few days, nowadays it’s mature enough that sometimes I lag behind the released versions.
- Is it better to run KDE for this or GNOME?
This would be replacing KDE or GNOME, that being said you can still use tooling from either if you wish but for the most part the DE you’re using tooling from would be wasted disk space
- Is Hyprland overrated? Are there any other alternatives?
Haven’t used hyprland myself, but
is a solid choice
