Btw, is there one for touchscreen notebooks/tablets yet?
There was one, paper-something, but i think it's abandoned now?- Get kicked from freedesktop for fostering a toxic community.
- Ditch wlroots for your own compositor.
- Shit on other compositors in your spare time.
- 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.
You can just chose not to read his blogs. I checked the discord recently for some help defining window size for mpv and it was pretty good. No general chats, strictly topic abiding channels and nice folk that either share the wiki part or the code that helped me.
Says the man who made one lol. I am still using hyprland because the sad thing is i like it but im trying to switch to something that is not made by a transphobe... what do yall recommend?
I'm a big fan of niri, which is a scrolling tiling compositor. I always had a soft spot for tiling wms/compositors, but couldn't stick with any of them for long until I tried niri, and wholeheartedly embraced the scrolling tiling world.
Very friendly upstream & community, and written in a modern language, too.
I dont think ill like scrolling tiling but you never know so ill try. At first i thought tiling was stupid and now look i feel like im digitally dissabled when i use a pure floating system.
You've gotten good responses already, but I just live and let live with Gnome's Mutter & KDE's Kwin. It's worth mentioning that they're both highly polished offerings. But I would also understand why one wouldn't want to use either.
I love KDE and use it as my daily driver, but talking strictly about the tilling experience, it just ain't it.
I've tried both Polonium and a updated fork of Kröhnkite for Plasma 6, and neither them were as nice as Hyprland...
Cosmic-comp is my second favorite after hyprland so far due to their tiling being quite well thought-out. The problem is, it's part of a DE and is somewhat cumbersome to configure as a standalone compositor (can be fixed by patching libcosmic, tho), and also it's quite bare-bones when it comes to features.
Then there's pinnacle which looks promising, but I haven't yet tried to daily-drive it.
Also, maybe qtile, which has a Wayland back-end.
Ill try out your suggestions. Ive thought about using cosmic but its alpha and it will have a bunch of stuff i wont use probably.
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.
While some of the arguments are true, this blog post mainly reads like an ad for hyperland and it propably is just that.
