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 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.
I’m a gnome fan myself, though I’ve been using a lot of distros without systemd recently while gnome has started requiring it so I’m probably not going to be seeing gnome for a while.
That’s interesting. I come from the Gentoo world, so Gnome without systemd isn’t too uncommon.
Not that KDE is bad, but Gnome is just so my style.
can’t you just customise KDE to just work like gnome?
For the most part, yes, but as the commenter above put it so eloquently…
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.
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!
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
Meanwhile, desktop environment users:
I couldn’t have picked better timing to switch to niri if I tried.
Yup. Been on Niri for a couple of months and it works very well and is super stable.
Niri seems to have a vision whereas Hyprland folks just seem to push as many features and changes as they can with little consideration.
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.
Meanwhile my Fedora ass whos done nothing but run updates for like five years
I’m on Bazzite now, but I was on Fedora for a looong time and I even moved the same installation from one laptop to the next, just dd’d the drive, zero problems.
- Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read
I liked hyprland for about one month this August, wasted a lot to make the configuration how I liked. Then they changed the config suddenly without warning. Installed GNOME as a fallback because I needed to do actual work, wasted another weekend to fix the configuration. Nice, I used it for some other time and… broken again within a month. At least deprecate the configuration and give one version of tolerance…
