• apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
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    1. Get kicked from freedesktop for fostering a toxic community.
    2. Ditch wlroots for your own compositor.
    3. Shit on other compositors in your spare time.
    4. Tell people they should just be plugging into Hyprland instead of rolling their own compositor.

    Man if I was concerned about sinking the time to make a configuration for the compositor with a bus factor of 1 man-child, and a toxic community; I can’t imagine anybody investing the time to make a compositor is going to want to hitch themselves to that cart.

    The compositor is really solid and makes for a great user experience but I’ll be fucked if every word vaxry writes doesn’t make me want to move to sway or niri.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    The reality is that, although there are quite a few standalone Wayland compositors, you don’t hear about most of them, because almost all of them suck in one way or another if you go beyond opening terminals.

    For standalone desktops, Hyprland is undeniably your best base at the moment to write a window manager.

    If you don’t believe it, see some amazing WM plugins for Hyprland on Github,

    Your favorite tiling WM doesn’t have a Wayland port? Pick up the initiative yourself and write a Hyprland plugin that makes it behave like your WM of choice.

    Said the person who maintains Hyprland. This post reads like an ad for his own project.

    Isn’t this the toxic dev, who dislikes any other Wayland Compositors? This guy is also banned from contributing to Freedesktop here and here. And here is a post from Drew Hyprland is a toxic community.

    I’m not surprised about this blog post. I argue we need more compositors. More means, more to choose from and being less reliant on the few that are available right now. What if someone does not like Hyprland in example or any of the current available compositors? Having more to choose from is a good thing, not bad. I’m so thankful that Hyprland is not the only one we have. One example is the programming language that the project is written in. Why does it matter? Maybe because people want to contribute or understand the code or want to make changes. In example Qtile is written in Python and its configuration language is in Python too.

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      Dude’s shilling for his own compositor backend right after ditching wlroots. He has zero credibility in this matter.

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        Oh no, he’s shilling his own project after transitioning to a different technology.

        Do you even hear yourself? I think you should stick with “He’s a biggot” type of comments, because this just makes you look stupid.

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    The reality is that, although there are quite a few standalone Wayland compositors, you don’t hear about most of them, because almost all of them suck in one way or another if you go beyond opening terminals.

    Ah, classic Vaxry. I’m sure he would love it if his compositor was the only one.

    I lost interest after that.

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          I’m not the one going around making statements that imply reliable wayland compositors can just be readily whipped up and shipped out.

          You can complain about the guy’s ego if you feel like he’s talking up his product too much, but if you’re going to reject valid statements he’s making under the assumption that they’re all self-motivated and therefore incorrect, then you should be able to justify the position.