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Is there an immutable distro based on Hyprland? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by filister@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Is there any immutable distro that's based on Hyprland? I really like their approach to tiling, but at the same time I prefer to have a solid experience without worrying that the next update might break some dependencies.

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[-] degen@midwest.social 31 points 2 weeks ago

No distro is really based on a window manager or desktop environment. Some provide defaults and premade configs. I kind of doubt any include hyprland as an option at installation, but, Wayland compatibility notwithstanding, there's nothing stopping you from throwing hyprland on whatever you would like. The best approach is to take a Wayland-ready setup, like Leaflet suggests, and just install hyprland.

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] degen@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well there ya go! I figured it was still too niche.

[-] Sbauer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ublue provides a really solid base template that makes it very easy to do stuff like this, all the heavy lifting of a distro is done by fedora, ublue adds the codecs and drivers and build system for updates.

Wouldn’t be unreasonable to make your own distro with it honestly.

[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 12 points 2 weeks ago

NixOS

Alternatively (speculating here), you might be able to use Nix to install Hyprland onto an existing immutable distro like Silverblue.

Nix people please chime in!

[-] filister@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, I was thinking about that as well and even found some guide on how this can be done. Actually I was eyeing uBlue but it should be exactly the same procedure for both.

The other option is I guess to rebase the system to something like this https://github.com/wayblueorg/wayblue?tab=readme-ov-file which already provides the Hyprland.

Are there any particular advantages and disadvantages of both methods that I should be aware of?

[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yeah that looks perfect, just get WayBlue Hyprland then! That sounds like exactly what you need.

No need to mess about with user services in systemd and display manager config.

[-] kerneltux@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've been using wayblue on my own desktop. They have sane defaults & very pleasant theme. They do a good job keeping their image up to date & enable auto-updating from the get-go.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, I will do exactly that then

[-] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

You can install Fedora Atomic Sway then install Hyprland on that with rpm-ostree install hyprland.

[-] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or you can install fedora without any de

[-] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

There is Fedora CoreOS (meant for servers), but I've never tried installing a desktop on that.

[-] Koba@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is the easiest way imo

[-] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I've seen quite a few people rocking NixOS with Hyperland. And I thought the whole idea of Nix was to be more stable than most rolling releases?

I don't use either so I'm far from an expert on this.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm one of those people, they make a surprisingly good combo

If you're doing nix right it doesn't matter how unstable something is if it's borked you just revert it

Have generally found hyprland to be pretty stable anyway though as long as you're not on the unstable nix channel

[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

You could try Guix (either standalone or Guix system). You can have a immutable profile, an immutable home environment with centralized configuration and much more!

The ability of having immutable environment and dotfile configurations is amazing.

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