look like it or not (and trust me, I don’t) unfortunately Hyprland is the best (while buggy best) WM for Wayland. And trust me, I’ve tried them all. The majority of the things just work right out of the box with hyprland. your next best option is Sway but if you’re on Nvidia then you’re essentially on your own as far as official support goes. Everything else? nothing comes close. It’s not like x11 WMs where you have plenty of good and working options, it’s just not there for wayland. sooooo everyone uses Hyprland.
The ease of use, the fact a good majority of things just work, and the vast amount of documentation/support for Hyprland puts it miles ahead of any competition. And considering the douchnozzle of a dev behind it, that sucks.
River is fine, but there’s some things on river that just won’t work. for the life of me I can’t figure out how to get xfreerdp to work on River and their multimonitor implementation is bleh. Sway is fine but like I said if you have Nvidia then they don’t like you. Niri is frustrating. and the rest are just meh. IF Cagebreak decided to get off their high horse and actually implement wlroots/layer than THAT would be the go to WM but that’s not going to happen. So Unfortunately we’re left with hyprland for now until something like COSMIC matures OR implements as much customization as hyprland which I doubt will happen.
The wayland landscape for WMs/Compositors absolutely sucks. Sorry but that’s just my personal honest opinion. And because of how my main laptop is setup I HAVE to use wayland so please if someone has a better tiling option than Hyprland that isn’t Sway then I’m all ears.
it’s my dumb laptop in all honesty. it’s a hybrid amd/nvidia so on x11 I can’t game at all. which sucks cause I REALLY love Herbstluftwm. And due to my work I need tiling so for now I’ve settled on COSMIC. it’s beta, it’s buggy, the panel crashes randomly, can’t change the font to my liking but it’s pretty much my only working option on my current rig. I’ve tried KDE Plasma 6 with Krohnkite but that’s just a mess and also buggy for simply tiling.
The thing is I could use Hyprland, I know it works, I know it works well but I just don’t agree with the lead dev on anything and I don’t want to use something that goes against what I believe in. Hell I even tried building my own wayland wm.
actually been fighting with that all morning and I’m just about to give up. I don’t understand why my tiles will stack one on top of the other on one monitor but on the second monitor they dwindle.
+1 for dwl, it’s been much less of a hassle to setup and use than hyprland, especially for gaming where game windows behaved really weird under hyprland. Granted it’s been about a year and a half since I made the switch so hyprland might be better than it was now.
look like it or not (and trust me, I don’t) unfortunately Hyprland is the best (while buggy best) WM for Wayland. And trust me, I’ve tried them all. The majority of the things just work right out of the box with hyprland. your next best option is Sway but if you’re on Nvidia then you’re essentially on your own as far as official support goes. Everything else? nothing comes close. It’s not like x11 WMs where you have plenty of good and working options, it’s just not there for wayland. sooooo everyone uses Hyprland.
The ease of use, the fact a good majority of things just work, and the vast amount of documentation/support for Hyprland puts it miles ahead of any competition. And considering the douchnozzle of a dev behind it, that sucks.
River is fine, but there’s some things on river that just won’t work. for the life of me I can’t figure out how to get xfreerdp to work on River and their multimonitor implementation is bleh. Sway is fine but like I said if you have Nvidia then they don’t like you. Niri is frustrating. and the rest are just meh. IF Cagebreak decided to get off their high horse and actually implement wlroots/layer than THAT would be the go to WM but that’s not going to happen. So Unfortunately we’re left with hyprland for now until something like COSMIC matures OR implements as much customization as hyprland which I doubt will happen.
The wayland landscape for WMs/Compositors absolutely sucks. Sorry but that’s just my personal honest opinion. And because of how my main laptop is setup I HAVE to use wayland so please if someone has a better tiling option than Hyprland that isn’t Sway then I’m all ears.
If you’re fine with using cosmic then KDE should be fine
That is highly subjective. But I’m sad you haven’t found any alternative.
it’s my dumb laptop in all honesty. it’s a hybrid amd/nvidia so on x11 I can’t game at all. which sucks cause I REALLY love Herbstluftwm. And due to my work I need tiling so for now I’ve settled on COSMIC. it’s beta, it’s buggy, the panel crashes randomly, can’t change the font to my liking but it’s pretty much my only working option on my current rig. I’ve tried KDE Plasma 6 with Krohnkite but that’s just a mess and also buggy for simply tiling.
The thing is I could use Hyprland, I know it works, I know it works well but I just don’t agree with the lead dev on anything and I don’t want to use something that goes against what I believe in. Hell I even tried building my own wayland wm.
https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl
actually been fighting with that all morning and I’m just about to give up. I don’t understand why my tiles will stack one on top of the other on one monitor but on the second monitor they dwindle.
+1 for dwl, it’s been much less of a hassle to setup and use than hyprland, especially for gaming where game windows behaved really weird under hyprland. Granted it’s been about a year and a half since I made the switch so hyprland might be better than it was now.
What about qtile, which works under Wayland too. It’s not native Wayland, but does that matter?