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Straight from Windows to Hyperland? That’s wild!
I've been running Linux exclusively on my laptop for about 5 years.
I went from Manjaro, to EndeavourOS, then to Arch - using KDE, Xfce, Gnome, and eventually landing on hyprland.
There was a few games that I played that were exclusive to Windows, so I kept Win10 on my desktop PC and kept tweaking it to match my Linux setup.
But once I was done with those games and the Win10 EOL approaching, I was reminded of that Omni-Man meme, "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power". My system had so many registry edits and applications/integrations just to imitate Linux, why not just go for the real deal?
Hyperland is what sold me on Linux. Would nog have switched if it wasn’t for this project
Never looked back.
I was impressed too, must people jump to gnome, KDE or xfce first. But straight to a tiling window manager. Good on you! I would never go back to a floating window manager now, wish I had discovered it straight away
How do you use it? Do you need to use hot keys constantly?
Hyprland uses mostly keybinds, though you can bind some actions to your scroll wheel.
You can definitely use something like waybar to create a custom interface that you can interact with your mouse or even touchscreen.
The beauty of using something like hyprland, sway, niri, etc. is that it is entirely up to you how your computer works, with every person pretty much getting their own custom desktop environment in the end.
I already use super+meta+arrows to move/tile windows around in xfce (modified it a bit from how it behaved in win10), but I was wondering if a tiling manager could elevate the experience.