Meanwhile, desktop environment users:
I am out of the loop, what’s going on with hyperland?
Is this a continuation of the DHH issues?
I assume it’s about hyprland changing the syntax for window rules like… 6 days ago
Yes. It’s not even an inconvenience to update, but people with bloated third party dotfiles got blasted with a million error messages and are making confused reddit posts
Me using KDE Plasma because I prefer to work with my computer rather than work on my computer:
These folks have a skill issue tho, haven’t touched my hyprland config in ages. Just don’t overcomplicate/bloat your config, it’s not that hard.
I had to change mine every few months because they keep deprecating stuff. Changed to Niri a week ago because I got dozens of config errors after an update.
I’m not sure what’s wrong with my config but almost every time I wake it from having the screens off (it doesn’t sleep because it’s my media PC too) plasma is just dead and may or may not boot up again. Running plasmashell —replace (or whatever the command is) doesn’t fix it every time.
I blame nvidia.
You need to pass an option to Nvidia in the grub launch commend that will keep the buffer or something.
It’s been a few days and I tried this. Got a crash yesterday that still required a reboot. :/
I think it is happening less though. I’ll keep looking down this path as it could be the right direction, and it’s the first time I’ve heard of this, so thank you!
Your welcome, I don’t remember how I got this solution but it was very hard to find. Not the first place I would search. I thought it was a driver issue. Anyway, thanks for the feedback and good luck!
I caved and used KDE on my last install, and boy do I miss Gnome.
Not that KDE is bad, but Gnome is just so my style.
Not that KDE is bad, but Gnome is just so my style.
can’t you just customise KDE to just work like gnome?
Possible? Yes. Accomplishable, dunno. You can get very close visually etc. Far closer than making GNOME look like KDE. But I have a feeling that some of the panel meaning dropdowns etc would be the first places to falter. Though, maybe someone has fitting panel apps already.
For the most part, yes, but as the commenter above put it so eloquently…
The rare double ambiguity: “work on” and “work with” could both have two meanings with opposite effects in the sentence
Are newbies really installing hyprland? I would think they’d stick with kde/gnome/cinnamon.
In an ideal world.
But in our world, newbies are being recommended:
- Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read
.pacnewconfig files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS) - A bunch of shell scripts and Hyprland config masquerading as a distro, made by a white supremacist and used to promote their brand (Omarchy 🤮)
- NixOS. I don’t even known where to begin with this one.
To be 100% clear, I use and like CachyOS and Nix (home manager). CachyOS and NixOS are great projects with good technical performance toward their respective goals (good defaults and performance on Arch, and declarative configuration, respectively), but they are not beginner friendly.
- Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read
